Yahoo – AFP,
12 May 2014
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Twitter on Monday began letting users 'mute' posts from people they are not interested in hearing from at the popular one-to-many messaging service (AFP Photo/Damien Meyer) |
San
Francisco (AFP) - Twitter on Monday began letting users 'mute' posts from people
they are not interested in hearing from at the popular one-to-many messaging
service.
The new
Mute feature was expected to be rolled out to all Twitter accounts in coming
weeks.
"You
can now mute users you'd like to hear from less," Twitter product manager
Paul Rosania said in a blog post.
"The
muted user will not know that you've muted them, and of course you can unmute
at any time."
The feature
is being added to Twitter iPhone and Android applications as well as at the
twitter.com site accessed through computer Web browsers.
Muting
someone at Twitter stops any messages they "tweet" at the service
from popping up in the timeline of whoever hit the virtual button, according to
Rosania.
Push or
text messages from muted Twitter accounts will not be delivered.
People will
still be able to see, "re-tweet," or comment on Twitter posts of
those who have muted them, but the person doing the muting will not be looped
into the activity.
"Mute
gives you even more control over the content you see on Twitter by letting you
remove a user's content from key parts of your Twitter experience,"
Rosania said.
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