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If Twitter’s as much a part of your online life as it is mine, you likely use one of their mobile or desktop apps in order to more easily manage your feed. You also, quite likely, occasionally come across a Twitter account that you not only want to unfollow, but actually block so as to prevent any further interaction. It’s a pretty dramatic action—blocked users can no longer follow you, @-reply to you, and you stop seeing their tweets in your timeline.
But sometimes you want something a little less severe. That’s where “mute” comes in. Available only in the Tweetbot Mac client for now, muting is a way to stop seeing an account’s tweets in your timeline without unfollowing them. If you care about your follower account, this is a good way to maintain a mutual following relationship, but without the burden of seeing unwanted tweets. Twitter tried to replace their universal “block” function with this “mute” function last year, but was met with a chorus of boooos from users.
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