Twitter Testing a 'Mute' Button to Quiet Your Follows

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Twitter Testing a 'Mute' Button to Quiet Your Follows
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Twitter (http://mashable.com/category/twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) can be loud — a constant stream of information, comments and long-winded hashtags is often exhausting. And unlike Facebook (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), there's ** good way to "hide" the tweets from those you follow without unfollowing or blocking them.

But according to The Verge (http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/1/5671846/twitter-is-experimenting-with-a-mute-feature-in-its-mobile-apps), some Twitter users are **ticing a new "mute" button on both iOS and Android version of the apps, giving you a way to (finally) silence the accounts of users you follow but don't want to see in your Timeline (and muted accounts will be **ne the wiser).

SEE ALSO: Twitter's New Profiles: Everything You Need to K**w (http://mashable.com/2014/04/08/twitters-new-profiles-what-you-need-to-k**w/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)


This will particularly come in handy if you feel pressured to follow someone for work-related reasons or if someone is live tweeting an event and you don't want to fight through the clutter to read your feed. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/02/twitter-mute-button/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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