How to use advanced muting options
Muting options for words and hashtags
You might see content in Tweets you’d like to avoid. We give you the option to mute Tweets that contain particular words, phrases, usernames, emojis, or hashtags. Muting will remove these Tweets from your Notifications tab, push notifications, SMS, email notifications, Home timeline, and from replies to Tweets.
Note: Muting words and hashtags only applies to your notifications and Home timeline. You will still see these Tweets via search. Notifications for muted words and hashtags are applied to replies and mentions, including all interactions on those replies and mentions: likes, Retweets, additional replies, and Quote Tweets.
You may have opted-in to receive mobile notifications when an account you follow Tweets. If so, muting words and hashtags will not apply to these notifications. You will still receive such mobile notifications from these accounts even if their Tweet(s) include a word or hashtag you have muted.
Muting words, phrases, usernames, emojis, and hashtags overview:
- Muting is case-insensitive. For example:
- If you add “CATS” to your mute list, any mention of “cats” will be muted from your notifications.
- You can include punctuation within a word or phrase when muting. Punctuation at the end of a word or phrase is not necessary.
- 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.
- To mute Tweet notifications, Tweets in the Home timeline, or from replies to Tweets that mention a particular account, you must include the @ sign before the name. Doing this will mute Tweets notifications that mention that account, but won’t mute the account itself.
- Words, phrases, usernames, emojis, and hashtags up to the max character count can be muted.
- Muting is possible across all Twitter-supported languages.
- Muting is set to a default time period of Forever. Instructions on how to adjust the mute time period is listed below for supported devices.
- You can view a list of your muted words (and unmute them) in your settings.
- Recommendations delivered to you via email or through Twitter will not suggest content that includes your muted words and hashtags.
Note: If you previously added words to your mute list when the feature applied to notifications only, the following default mute settings will be enabled: Notifications only; From anyone; Forever. You can edit existing mute settings at any time, instructions are listed below.
How to bulk delete words and hashtags from Twitter for iOS
- Go to your Notifications tab
- Tap the gear icon
- Tap Muted, then tap Muted words.
- Tap Edit.
- Select the words phrases you wish to delete in bulk.
- Tap Delete.
- Tap to confirm.
- Tap Done to exit.
Note: You cannot bulk delete from the Twitter for Android app, twitter.com, or mobile.twitter.com.
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 via twitter.com, or from your Twitter for iOS or Android app:
- Go to the Tweet detail of any Tweet or a reply in the conversation you wish to mute.
- Click or tap the icon.
- Tap Mute this conversation.
Note: Learn about muting accounts and muting Direct Message conversation notifications.
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