Mute is one of the greatest tools Twitter has ever built, in my opinion. Block and Mute should not effectively be the same thing.īlocking is for assholes. But that should just be a granular setting. I think the main issue here is that people want the ability to stop seeing people in their feed without alerting them that they’re not being seen - when you block someone, it’s pretty clear that they’re blocked if they just try to visit your profile. But on the surface, mute is a more lightweight way of just keeping people out of my feed. Then, if still not enough, I’ll use block. If I never want to see a person’s tweets, or if they’re harassing me, I’ll unfollow them (if I followed them for some reason), then I’ll mute them if that’s not enough. But conceptually, I think the way I do things actually makes sense.
I realize this is probably a bit of a “power user” problem. And yet I still want to be able to have a DM conversation with those people if I need to. And also because a lot of people I know tweet really fucking stupid things that are useless to me. I use mute quite liberally because following 1,000 people is too much information to sort through. I both follow a lot of people (around 1,000) and mute a lot of people (over 100). This is the case for many of the tweets I describe above. I obviously get the notion of never wanting to show muted users to the people who mute them, but mute should work differently if you follow those users. And this change would seem to be a part of working towards fixing that. But now, in order to see what tweet people are replying to, you have to go to that user’s profile to try to hunt down the tweet - which, as it turns out, is pretty hard to do out of context!Īnd judging from the reactions when I tweeted about this, I’m hardly alone in noticing, and being annoyed by this change. But mute didn’t work like this until a recent change because when I would do this same routine previously, I could see any and all tweets (unless I blocked that user or they blocked me) with a couple clicks. Turns out, this is because at some point I had muted the person who started the thread. There was the thin blue line (denoting a thread), but I couldn’t see from where it began. But when I would click on those tweets to drill down, I couldn’t see the tweet they were replying to. While scrolling through the feed, I would see people replying to other tweets. Sometimes when using Twitter it feels as if I’m taking crazy pills. Which Twitter effectively muted this week…
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