How to Mute Words on Twitter for iPad and iPhone

How to Mute Words on Twitter for iPad and iPhone

Twitter can be a valuable place to get news and information (and you can on there too of course), but it can also have plenty of things you wont want to observe, see, or hear. If you dont want to see particular topics, words, phrases, names, usernames, or hashtags on Twitter, you can easily mute terms and words and prevent them from showing up in your Twitter feed. Muting words and terms on Twitter is useful for many purposes, from attempting to childproof the service, to avoiding seeing particular subjects, or even to avoid spoilers for TV shows and movies. This tutorial will show you how to mute words, phrases, hashtags, and usernames on Twitter.

For our purposes here we are going to be muting all mentions of a particular TV shows name, this was inspired by a friend who was complaining about how Twitter is full of constant spoilers about the HBO show . Of course muting this topic is just an example, you can mute mentions of any other topic or subject matter if youd like. Muting words, phrases, TV shows, names, hashtags, and anything else is easy on the iPhone or iPad, heres all you need to do: When you refresh your Twitter feed, you will find the muted terms and words are no longer shown.

This process works the same on Twitter for the iPhone and iPad, and probably Android too. If the mute has not taken effect, you may need to and relaunch the Twitter app. Similarly, you may find it useful to too. While social media can be interesting, fun, and engaging, social media is also sort of like the internets bulletin board, constantly being filled with anything and everything dumped into it by anyone or everyone in the world for better or worse. Anyway, have fun muting some words or terms, whether youre trying to stop spoilers for a show, or maybe youre just tired of hearing about a particular celebrity or sport or anything else.