
You will be asked how long you want to mute that user: forever, one month, one week, or one day. To mute a user, go to his profile, click the gear icon to the left of his avatar, and select Mute from the pop-over. Oddly, you cannot mute a user or a hashtag from the Mute Filters screen. If you change your mind and want to unmute something, click Edit in the upper right, and then click the red delete button to the left of an entry. Woz, I’d love to hear anything from you other than your Foursquare check-ins. This may seem like an odd feature, but some apps, like Foursquare, can fill your timeline with unwanted automated tweets, and you can use this to block them entirely. You can also block a Twitter client here, by clicking Add Client and selecting a client from the list. Tweetbot asks if you want to remove tweets that match your new mute filter from your timeline, which you probably want to do. When you’re finished, click Save in the upper right. A nice touch is that under Matching Tweets, Tweetbot lets you know how many current tweets the mute filter would have blocked. By default, you’ll still see directed at you even if they contain that keyword, but selecting Mute Mentions prevents even those tweets from appearing. Enter the keyword you don’t wish to see, and choose a duration of forever, one month, one week, or one day.

To mute a specific word so that tweets containing it never show up in your timeline, click Add Keyword.
TWEETBOT 6 FOR MAC
Muting in Tweetbot for Mac - To create and manage mutes in Tweetbot for Mac, click the Mute Filters screen (the speech bubble icon with an X in it) in the sidebar to see your existing mutes, add a new keyword mute, or mute a Twitter client. Its mutingįunctionality is highly customizable, which is essential when it comes to filtering the crud from your Twitter stream. Twitterrific for iOS and TweetDeck for Web and Mac are two of the more popular clients that offer this functionality, but my muting client of choice is Tweetbot by Tapbots, which comes in Mac ($12.99) and iPhone ($4.99) versions that sync perfectly. As always, other Twitter apps do a far better job. Twitter has its own muting functionality, but like many native features from the company, it’s weak, since you can mute only people, not keywords. But before you take your puck and go home, try muting, which can filter out uninteresting or even offensive tweets from people you otherwise enjoy following.

Tired of your Twitter timeline being trumped by tedious topics? If an otherwise interesting person has a side obsession with something that annoys you, the temptation to unfollow her can be swift.

TWEETBOT 6 SOFTWARE
#1626: AirTag replacement battery gotcha, Kindle Kids software flaws, iOS 12.5.6 security fix.
TWEETBOT 6 ARCHIVE
#1627: iPhone 14 lineup, Apple Watch SE/Series 8/Ultra, new AirPods Pro, iOS 16 and watchOS 9 released, Steve Jobs Archive.#1628: iPhone 14 impressions, Dark Sky end-of-life, tales from Rogue Amoeba.
