Your news feed is awash in spam and self-promotional tweets? If certain subjects do not interest you, know that it is possible to mute them. In the rest of the article, you will find out how to deactivate keywords or hashtags on Twitter in order to prevent posts containing these words from appearing in your news feed..
Disable words on your Twitter account
Can't stand tweets related to cryptocurrency or groups of music fans that pollute your timeline with their messages? Rest assured, Twitter has thought of you. The blue bird social network offers a new function to mute specific topics.
To do this, simply indicate a word or phrase in the application settings so that they no longer appear in your timeline or in your notifications. Unfortunately, this functionality is totally unknown..
Whether you're an occasional user or a Twitter addict, chances are you'd like to optimize your news feed to better meet your expectations. We will now see that there are several solutions: discreetly delete a subscriber or hide a keyword.
- Launch the Twitter app on your smartphone
- Click on your profile picture located in the upper right corner of the screen
- A new menu will appear in the left part of the window
- Scroll down then click on the Settings and privacy section
- Then select the Privacy and Security option
- Tap Hide & Block
- Click Hidden Keywords
- You will find the list of all the muted words
- During the first use, a short message will briefly remind you of the operation of this tool.
- Press the + button
- Start by adding the words you no longer want to appear in your tweets or notifications
- Then select where the word or phrase should be banned: newsfeed, notifications
- Choose the accounts that will be subject to this filtering: everyone, people you don't follow
- Determine the duration of the hiding: permanently, 24 hours from now, 7 days or 30 days.
- Click the Save button to validate your changes
Important detail, you can only add one word at a time. And if you change your mind, don't worry. Twitter lets you go back and change your hidden word selection. Here's how to automatically block accounts that harass you on Twitter..
You can block a word, phrase, username, and even an emoji. The deactivation of a word automatically leads to that of the hashtag with which it is associated. Concretely, this means that if you ban the word car, the hashtag car will be too.
Note that it is possible to perform this operation directly from the Twitter web interface. The process is similar, only a few menus change. But regardless of the device used, the result will be the same. Blocking will delete tweets and conversations in your news feed, in replies to your messages and in notifications (SMS, push, web, email).
This new chat setting is available from the Twitter app for Android and iOS. If it does not appear in the privacy settings, consider updating the app.