Twitter got advanced!!

You know that friend who has an
opinion or a joke about everything? Sure,
they're entertaining, but sometimes you wish
you could get them to shut up.
Now on Twitter, you can.
Twitter is rolling out a "mute" feature that will
let you silence certain users in your feed. Once
you've muted them, their tweets and retweets
will no longer be visible in your timeline, and
you won't receive their push or SMS
notifications, although @ replies and mentions
will still appear.
"In the same way you can turn on device
notifications so you never miss a tweet from
your favorite users, you can now mute users
you'd like to hear from less," Twitter said in a
blog post late Monday.
The mute function will be available on Twitter's
iPhone and Android apps and its website and
will roll out to all Twitter users "in the coming
weeks."
Twitter says muted users will still be able to
favorite, reply to and retweet your tweets, but
you won't see any of that activity in your
timeline. Muted users you follow can still send
you a direct message.
But the muted user won't know you've muzzled
them, and you can unmute them at any time.
In this way, the mute tool is similar to
Facebook's feature that lets you hide friends'
updates without unfriending them and,
presumably, hurting their feelings.
The change is Twitter's latest attempt to give its
200 million-plus users greater control over
their interactions on the social platform. The
company must hope it will be better received
than its last similar update.
In December, Twitter tweaked its settings that
allow users to block others who harass or
annoy them. The change allowed the blocked
user to still see the profile and tweets of the
person who blocked them and to retweet their
posts. But after a furious user backlash,
Twitter abruptly reversed itself .
Unlike muted users, blocked users can't follow
you on Twitter.
Some Twitter users were questioning the need
for a mute feature Tuesday, saying people
should just unfollow users who annoy them.
"I find the #twittermute thing hilarious. It's
just the Internet switch it off and go for a
walk!" wrote Stewart Lee , a Web officer for a
foundation in the United Kingdom.
Others, of course, just made jokes.
"Forget Klout, now we need a 'Muzzle' ranking
showing your Follower-Mute ratio," said
Christian Christensen , a university professor in
Stockholm.
To mute a user, click "more" next to their
tweet and then "mute @username." To mute
someone from their profile page, click the
gear icon on the page and choose "mute
@username."

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