Advanced muting options on Twitter

Muting notifications for words and hashtags
How to mute words and hashtags
How to unmute words and hashtags
Muting notifications for a conversation

Muting notifications for words and hashtags

You might be mentioned in Tweets alongside content you’d like to avoid. We give you the option to mute notifications for Tweets you are mentioned in that contain particular words, phrases, usernames, emojis or hashtags. Muting will remove these Tweets from your Notifications tab, push notifications, SMS, and email notifications.

Muting words, phrases, usernames, emojis, and hashtags overview:

1. Muting is case-insensitive. For example:
   If you add “CATS” to your mute list, any mention of “cats” will be muted from your notifications.
2. You can include punctuation within a word or phrase when muting. Punctuation at the end of a word or phrase is not necessary.
3. Muting a word will mute both the word itself and its hashtag. For example:
   If you mute “unicorn”, both “unicorn” and “#unicorn” will be muted from your notifications.
4. To mute Tweet notifications that mention a particular account, you must include the @ sign before the name. Doing this will mute Tweet notifications that mention that account, but won’t mute notifications from the account itself. Learn about how to mute accounts here. 
5. Words, phrases, usernames, emojis, and hashtags up to 140 characters can be muted.
6. Muting is possible across all Twitter-supported languages.
7. Muting cannot be set for a particular time period. Words and phrases will remain muted until manually deleted from your settings.
8. You can view a list of your muted words (and unmute them) in your settings.
9. Recommendations delivered to you via email or through Twitter will not suggest content that includes your muted words and hashtags.

How to mute words and hashtags

From the Twitter for iOS app:

1. Go to your Notifications tab 
2. Tap the gear icon 
3. Tap Muted words.
4. Tap + Add muted word or phrase.
5. Type in the words or hashtags you’d like to mute.
6. Tap Save.
7. Tap Done.
8. You will see the mute icon  next to each entered word or hashtag.

From the Twitter for Android app:

1. Go to your Notifications tab 
2. Tap All.
3. Tap Muted words.
4. Tap the plus icon 
5. Type in the words or hashtags you’d like to mute.
6. Tap Save.
7. You will see the mute icon  next to each entered word or hashtag.

Via twitter.com:

1. Click Settings from your profile image drop-down.
2. Click Notifications.
3. Click Mute specific words from your Notifications. 
4. Enter the words or hashtags you’d like to mute.
5. Click Add.
6. You will see a Muted button next to each entered word or hashtag. 

How to unmute words and hashtags

From the Twitter for iOS app:

1. Go to your Notifications tab 
2. Tap the gear icon 
3. Tap Muted words.
4. Tap the mute icon  next to the word or hashtag you’d like to unmute.
5. Tap Yes to confirm.

From the Twitter for Android app:

1. Go to your Notifications tab 
2. Tap All.
3. Tap Muted words.
4. Tap the mute icon  next to the word or hashtag you’d like to unmute.
5. Tap Yes, I’m sure to confirm.

Via twitter.com:

1. Click Settings from your profile image drop-down.
2. Click Muted words.
3. Hover your mouse over the Muted button next to the word or hashtag you’d like to unmute.
4. The button will change to Unmute.
5. Click Unmute.

Muting notifications for a conversation

If you would like to stop receiving notifications for a particular conversation, you can choose to mute it. When you mute a conversation, you won’t get any new notifications about that conversation. You will, however, still see Tweets from the conversation in your timeline and when you click into the original Tweet. 

To mute a conversation from your Twitter for iOS or Android app:

1. Go to the Tweet detail of any Tweet or a reply in the conversation you wish to mute.
2. Tap the  icon. 
3. Tap Mute this conversation. 

To mute a conversation via twitter.com:

1. Go to the Tweet detail of any Tweet or a reply in the conversation you wish to mute.
2. Click the more icon 
3. Click Mute this conversation.