Your timeline is about to get a whole lot cleaner.
Twitter announced late Monday that it finally solved the age-old problem of otherwise valuable accounts constantly retweeting trash into your timeline. Say hello to “turn off retweets,” the new setting which lets you see all of someone’s tweets and none of their retweets.
“If you like an account’s Tweets, but would rather not see their Retweets, you can turn them off,” reads the Monday announcement. “Head over to the profile, tap the ‘∙∙∙’ icon, and then ‘Turn off Retweets.'”
If you like an account’s Tweets, but would rather not see their Retweets, you can turn them off.
Head over to the profile, tap the “∙∙∙” icon, and then “Turn off Retweets.”
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) December 21, 2020
The ability to finely tune how one follows an account comes on the heels of numerous changes to Twitter — like limiting who can reply to tweets — with an emphasis the act of tweeting. Monday’s update, however, empowers the other side of the equation.
We reached out to Twitter to confirm whether this will impact quote tweets, but received no immediate response.
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Either way, it’s great step. So go ahead and embrace your newfound ability to unmute all those accounts who once junked up your timeline with their trigger happy retweeting. You deserve it.
Unless you’re one of those over-eager retweeters. In that case, you deserve this, too.