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Muting annoying users on Twitter without unfollowing them

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Re: Muting annoying users on Twitter without unfollowing them

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Post by jarin »

noelchurchill wrote: post #10
swombat wrote: post #5

Despite what you might think, unlike Facebook, people do not really give a damn if you unfollow them on Twitter. Stop being such a wuss and just unfollow people whose tweets you don't want to see. If they're the rare case who gets back to you and asks you why, you can then provide them with valuable feedback.

I have an old friend I follow on twitter who tweets way to much garbage and I want to unfollow her, but I know for a fact she uses an unfollow tracker, and I KNOW it'll spite her. I wish there was a way to mute people right in Twitter.

If she's an old friend, just tell her (as an old friend) that you're not interested in her tweets and that's why you're unfollowing her. To rely on third-party services to avoid dealing with interpersonal relations is what is known as "being passive-aggressive".

Anyway, it's not like you're calling her baby ugly, it's just Twitter.

Re: Muting annoying users on Twitter without unfollowing them

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Post by JCB_K »

edderly wrote: post #12

Is there an equivalent for Facebook? Not necessarily to deal with 'annoying' people but I want to prioritize messages from a subset of friends/family.

You can set up lists of friends, and on every post there's a hide button, where you can either hide the person, or the kind of post.

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Post by waterlesscloud »

mike-cardwell wrote: post #4

Twitter really need to add this functionality to the core service. I use several different Twitter clients. I'm following a couple of users who I'd like to hide the tweets of, but it would potentially be awkward to unfollow them if they notice.

What would be most useful for me is to mute someone for a set period of time.

If someone is off on a long series of tweets I don't care about, it would be nice to mute them for an hour or two until they're done.

Or if someone is tweeting from a conference and I don't care about it, I could mute them for a couple of days.

These are scenarios where I definitely don't want to unfollow, but I'd also like to not read dozens of uninteresting tweets.

Re: Muting annoying users on Twitter without unfollowing them

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Post by notjoeflynn »

slig wrote: post #14

If you'd rather use a native client with loads of features, including blocking people and keywords, give YoruFukurou a try https://sites.google.com/site/yorufukurou/home-en

Hibari (http://hibariapp.com/) is another native OS X client with muting (and, in my opinion, a nicer interface than YoruFukurou.)

Re: Muting annoying users on Twitter without unfollowing them

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Post by hnhg »

jarin wrote: post #11
noelchurchill wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have an old friend I follow on twitter who tweets way to much garbage and I want to unfollow her, but I know for a fact she uses an unfollow tracker, and I KNOW it'll spite her. I wish there was a way to mute people right in Twitter.

If she's an old friend, just tell her (as an old friend) that you're not interested in her tweets and that's why you're unfollowing her. To rely on third-party services to avoid dealing with interpersonal relations is what is known as "being passive-aggressive". Anyway, it's not like you're calling her baby ugly, it's just Twitter.

She might not take it well. You might then say he's better off without that kind of friendship, but that's not the outcome he wanted.
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