Table of contents:
- The official slow formula
- The official quick formula
- The unofficial formula
- Other tricks for Twitter
Twitter, as usual, arrives late to trends, and Stories was not going to be less. Despite the fact that users have been asking for years to edit the tweets or messages of the blue bird's social network, it has decided to bring ephemeral content such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Snapchat or Instagram. And not everyone liked it. So here we are going to teach you how to make all those icons disappear that have been planted at the top of your Twitter application and that don't interest you in the slightest .Of course, there are several formulas with more or less work behind it.
Fleets, how to create and share the new Twitter stories
The official slow formula
So far Twitter hasn't made it easy for us to get rid of its new feature. Logical, since you will want to promote it as much as possible until it starts to walk. This assumes there is no option to turn it off and leave Twitter with its old layout. But there is a function to cancel us from seeing the Fleets of the users It is the following:
You will have to go to the top of the screen where there are these contents that only last 24 hours. And, one by one, you must make a long press on the circles of each user. Yes, we already know that it is an arduous task, but Twitter does not make it any easier. With this gesture a screen appears to be able to choose the Silence option.With this, a new window appears that allows you to specify between Fleets and also tweets from this profile If we only want to stop seeing your videos and ephemeral photos in the Twitter header, select the first option and that's it.
This will make the circle with that account's profile disappear from the top of the app screen. That profile won't know you've muted their Fleets, and they simply won't show up again unless you visit them and proactively view this ephemeral content.
The only problem with this method is that you will have to do it on a user-by-user basis But if you already have those who usually publish content on file, surely the process faster. Be patient until there is an option to hide this function.If it ever happens, of course.
The official quick formula
There is a second official formula, but it involves leaving the Twitter application aside. It consists of following using this social network through the web browser Whether it's the typical one on your mobile, Google Chrome or any other that you have installed at hand. The thing is, the web version of Twitter hasn't implemented this functionality yet. So it doesn't appear in it.
This means you don't have to do anything at all to block or mute these photos and videos. You just have to access the Twitter website and sign in with your credentials from this social network. Inside you will find everything with the appearance of the web, except for the difference in the Fleets section, which is no longer at the top of Twitter messages
The unofficial formula
Finally there is an unofficial and very comfortable option to solve this “problem”: install any other Twitter client. Only the official app has implemented the Fleets, so you can use unofficial apps with lots of different features and layouts to avoid coming across these contents. There is something for everyone. One of the fastest and most useful, although it is already a classic, is TweetCaster for Twitter. But there are others with better design. All of them without incorporating, at least for now, the Twitter Stories.
Keep in mind that notable features like these are usually here to stay So it takes time to get used to them or receive some practical option to not see them. But, for now, these are the three most comfortable and effective ways to get rid of those little blue circles in the Twitter header.