Twitter now allows you to mute users on Android
Little by little, slower than many users would like, Twitter continues to improve its service through official applications and the web version And it has just announced the arrival of a new feature for this social network. This is the possibility of mute certain users to avoid bumping into their messages or tweets , but without having to unfollow them.Something that the most experienced users will have experienced through unofficial clients who have been offering it for a long time.
Thus, through a publication on its official blog, the Twitter team welcomes the function Mute or Mute, as it has been translated into Spanish. A useful function to avoid running into new comments from some unpleasant user Something that can certainly be achieved unfollowing himHowever, the ability to mute a user brings other qualities with it.
In this way, in addition to stopping seeing their tweets, when a user is muted you also stop seeing theirRT or retweets (posts shared by others). Thus, that user and its contents are definitely no longer tracked even if others who are followed doretweet In addition, and how could it be otherwise, this function silences all kinds of notifications coming from that user or unwanted users, thus avoiding any notice or interaction to the regard. But how to silence them?
The process is simple. Simply access any tweet or message from the Android and applications iOS by clicking on it, and display the menu More (three dots) to find the option Mute @… In the case of the version, simply display the menu More to find this option. Another option is to do it through the profile page of the user you want to silence, finding the option also ordered in the same menu. All this taking into account that this function is completely reversible at any time.
A new feature for the official application but that has already been seen in other much more complete clients and focused on more expert users . Feature that even in some unofficial applications directly touches the trends or Trending Topics (TT) and tags to avoid seeing any issue that is not to the user's liking. Something for which we will have to wait to see in the official applications of Twitter
This new feature comes without the need to update the applications, finding this option right now as one more. A feature that can somewhat modify the behavior of users and those courtesy follow-ups And from now on it will be possible follow and mute without the other user knowing, believing that their content reaches a number of users that may well not be real.We will have to wait to see if it finally turns out to be a function well received by users.
