Tired Of Broken Kites Or Spider-Man Spoilers? Even COVID-19 On Twitter? This Is The Solution!

Twitter offers the option to disable terms.(photo: Doc. Twitter)

JAKARTA - Are you tired of spoilers for Spider-Man: No Way Home or the Layangan Putus series before watching it, or need a break from people talking about COVID-19 or news you're not interested in? Twitter now has a solution.

Twitter can be a place to interact with friends, brands, celebrities, and almost anyone. Sometimes, though, movie and TV show spoilers can be considered a frustrating, but harmless, risk.

Likewise, reading tweets containing hurtful content can have a negative impact on your mental health, and this is an even bigger problem. An unfiltered Twitter timeline leaves you vulnerable to both of these risks.

Fortunately, there are ways to protect yourself. Twitter offers the option to mute terms, in the same way you deactivate accounts you don't want to see.

Twitter's mute feature can now solve all of these problems, and you just have to find it in the app menu.

"When you mute words, you won't get new notifications for Tweets that include them or see Tweets with those words on your timeline," Twitter wrote in the feature's description.

Here's how to clean your timeline of unwanted topics, as quoted from CNET, Monday, December 27.

How to Disable Certain Words on Twitter

Tap your profile picture in the top left on mobile devices. Select More if you are using a computer. Select Settings and Privacy, click Privacy and Safety. Select Mute and Block, then tap the word you want to mute. If any term is disabled, it will be shown in the next menu. On iOS, hit the Add button at the bottom right. On Android, press the + symbol in the bottom right (top right in a web browser). At the top of the screen, enter the word or phrase you want to mute. If you want to disable multiple terms, which are generally more effective, you must disable them individually. For example, pandemics, COVID, COVID-19, vaccines, delta and Omicron. Choose where you can mute a term, whether you want it to be muted across your entire timeline or just notifications, whether you want to mute it from anyone or only people you don't follow, and how long you want the term to remain muted. Press Save at the top right of the screen to turn off the word or phrase. If you want to add more terms, repeat from step five.