Are you super pumped about the three hour long super hero movie coming out on Thursday and actively avoiding movie spoilers at all cost? You’ve managed to not click the alleged leaked scene videos, you won’t even read fan theories about what could happen, and oh look, general tech sites are spoiling the movie’s mysteries with their (so-called spoiler-free) reviews days before the movie hits theaters for fans.
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You don’t have to go back to the stone age to avoid movie spoilers and avoid other trending topics on Twitter (which is great news if your job partly relies on tracking breaking news with Twitter!). The Twitter mute feature puts you in control of what tweets you want to avoid no matter which Twitter app you use. Here’s how to starting muting:
How does Twitter mute work
Love Twitter for following sports but want political news to go away? Or care about breaking news but just want to see how the Avengers save the universe after the movie is actually in theaters? Twitter’s mute feature to the rescue.
Sep 26, 2017 I'd like to mute (no sound but still get a notifications) every app on my iPhone, iMessenger, Facebook, WhatsApp, games, news, etc etc etc, however I have one app I'd like to hear. I use an app called Tipster which I have set to play an air raid siren when someone I follow posts.
Some Twitter apps left you mute or muffle specific topics with rules that can only be applied to those clients, but Twitter has since created its own platform level mute feature that does the same job. The benefit of using Twitter’s mute feature over similar app-specific features is that Twitter’s rules applies to all Twitter apps, not just certain apps, including Twitter for iOS, Twitter.com, and TweetDeck for Mac.
How to mute topics and hashtags
Anyone can quickly mute a topic with Twitter on the web, although the global Twitter mute feature is a little buried. Twitter places the mute feature in the notifications tab, I guess so you can prevent certain tweet replies from disturbing you, but it’s my timeline that needs quality control.
Here’s a shortcut to the place you need: https://twitter.com/settings/muted_keywords. From here, you can select the big blue ‘Add’ button and create a rule for specific topics.
You may find that simply muting an official hashtag for a topic doesn’t solve the problem, however, which means you should create a few more mute rules for variations of that topic. For example, you could mute ‘#AvengersEndgame’, ‘Avengers Endgame’, ‘Avengers’, and ‘Endgame’ to dramatically reduce your chances of seeing something that you can’t unsee on Twitter.
Twitter mutes can also have time limits including forever, 24 hours, 7 days, or 30 days. You can optionally mute only your notifications or both your notifications and timeline (which is the default). If you want to avoid certain keywords in your notifications, you can choose between muting all tweets with those keywords, or only tweets from accounts that you don’t follow.
Be safe out there, folks.
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I talked about Edison Mail a few weeks back when they had announced their new OnMail email service. Today, Edison Mail is back in the news as they have debuted on the Mac App Store. Like I mentioned when CleanMyMac X debuted on the Mac App Store last week, apps joining the store seem to be a growing trend whereas a few years ago, it was quite the opposite as apps were leaving the Mac App Store over revenue and sandboxing concerns.
Edison Mail for Mac was released as invite-only back in December and demand for early access to the app reached over 60,000 users almost immediately. Edison Mail for Mac has been built to simplify desktop mail frustrations like managing multiple Gmail accounts, eliminate junk from your inbox, blocking ad tracking your emails, and more in a minimalist design. The app also includes features like one-tap Unsubscribe, Email Threading, Dark Mode, Templates, and customizable keyboard shortcuts.
Today, they are also adding some more new features to their Mac App (also included with the Mac App Store version). The new Focused Inbox features only the email that matters to you. It filters out everything else, but you can easily access all emails when you need to as well, but they won’t clog up in your inbox.
Another feature launching today with Edison on the Mac App Store is a Today Folder. Today Folder, available on the left-hand sidebar of the app window, will just collect all the messages that have come in that day for you to check. If you’re drowning in email messages from previous days, this feature will let you view what’s new today.
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The final new feature launching today is mute notifications for a specific sender. With this feature, you’re able to hide notifications from a certain person without affecting the rest of your notifications. You can think of it like muting a message thread in iMessage.
9to5Mac’s Take on Edison Mail and Mac App Store
Overall, these are some nice additions to Edison Mail for Mac. The most important feature is simply being on the Mac App Store. As someone who’s set up new Macs multiple times in the past year, I much prefer redownloading apps from the Mac App Store over going and redownloading from various vendor websites. Edison Mail is doing a lot of nice things, similar to Spike, so it’ll be interesting to see what they come up with next. There a lot of email apps doing some very interesting things right now.
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Edison Mail for Mac can be downloaded from the Mac App Store.
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