Twitter may play second fiddle to Facebook’s social internet prowess, but we still find it pretty useful.
It still has its fair share of annoyances inherent in the system.
Here’s how to avoid being repressed by annoyances.
“X, Y, and Z just followed @ButtsMcButtpants.”
None of these have much to do with any activity you take part in.
They’re all prompted by other people interacting with things that aren’t you.
Sometimes they might stumble onto this side of relevant, but most of the time they’re obnoxious.
These types of notifications seem limited to the mobile apps for now.
Fortunately, it’s possible for you to turn them off:
Go to controls in the Twitter app.
Tap your account’s handle.
Part of the problem with these notifications is that they’re hidden and poorly labeled.
Still, you might use this page to turn on or off any notifications you want.
There are favorites, retweets, and replies.
However, those can be further filtered with a distinction known as “tailored for you.”
Chances are, you’re actually already in the “tailored” mode for most things anyway.
These can all be disabled by going to Twitter on the web and navigating to tweaks > Email Notifications.
These are sometimes helpful, but other times can be a lot of noise.
For most of us, all of the email notifications can go.
The few we want to keep can be filtered.
One alternative is to use a service likeMuteTweets.
Contrary to its name,it allows you to do is temporarily unfollow someone.
At leaston the desktop.
Annoyance-stomping features include:
Excluding content by keyword (i.e.
filter slurs from your notifications)
Disable media previews.
If your notifications happen to be overwhelmed with butts or whatever.
However, you’re free to still tweak enough things to minimize the mess.
