New From Twitter: The Mute Button

We first covered this a week ago when the proposal was one of the platform’s many experiments, but now it’s a reality: Twitter is getting a mute button.

Billed as a way to give you “even more control over the content you see on Twitter by letting you remove a user’s content from key parts of your Twitter experience”, the mute button will be available on Twitter.com, as well as iOS and Android devices, and here’s how it works:

In the same way you can turn on device notifications so you never miss a Tweet from your favorite users, you can now mute users you’d like to hear from less.