Tuesday Tips: Don't Get Muted on Twitter

Did you know your Twitter app on your phone has a way to mute the people you follow?  If not, you weren't reading last week's Wednesday Words where we covered this term.

That being said, I knew about it for a while, and I've used it a few times when I was getting flooded by tweets from various brands at gaming conventions I wasn't at - it was annoying to get buzzed constantly by the tweets and retweets.

Having said that, though, it's a bad thing for your followers to be muting you.

According to this article over at Constant Contact, if you tweet more than 14 tweets a day as a brand (and this includes retweets that go through to followers using push notifications), you are at a higher risk of being muted by your followers.

If you are worried that you might be at risk of being muted, or want to learn more to prevent yourself from being muted, check out the entire useful article found here: http://blogs.constantcontact.com/product-blogs/social-media-marketing/muting-on-twitter/

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Wednesday Words: Twitter Mute Button

The Twitter Mute Button is a way for users with iPhone or Android devices to be able to mute people they follow.

From Twitter's blog on the subject:

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. Muting a user on Twitter means their Tweets and Retweets will no longer be visible in your home timeline, and you will no longer receive push or SMS notifications from that user. The muted user will still be able to favorite, reply to and retweet your Tweets; you just won’t see any of that activity in your timeline. The muted user will not know that you’ve muted him/her, and of course you can unmute at any time.

To learn more about the feature, click here: https://blog.twitter.com/2014/another-way-to-edit-your-twitter-experience-with-mute

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