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Muting key words is a fantastic way to weed your Twitter garden. I mute many politician names and organizations (and variations like possessives and plurals) and annoying memes of the week. Even then, a surprising amount of related tweets get through (because the muted word is in a linked news article or attached image, not the Tweet text).

Unfortunately, the mute list has a hard coded limit of only 200 words. I'm always hitting that max and needing to retire old words, which is a hassle.

Also, Twitter's own ads are not affected by the mute list. I mute words related to Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, yet I still get ads that contain those exact words.

Muting instructions:

https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/advanced-twitter-m...



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