From today it is easier to avoid unpleasant experiences on Twitter. The new Twitter filters are now available, and we explain how it works.
Twitter is adding new quality filters for everyone
Starting today with version 6.60 of Twitter, a new setting is available that makes it possible to filter notifications. Handy if you have a lot of followers, but also if you want to make Twitter a more closed experience.
These Twitter filters are a collaboration between this new notification setting and a quality filter. Until now, these were only available to Verified Twitterers with a blue tick, but can now be used by everyone.
The option to only receive notifications from people you follow is self-explanatory, but the ‘quality filter’ is a bit more vague. This is a special filter where Twitter analyzes various characteristics of a tweet and its user, and then determines whether it contains hateful text.
This Twitter quality filter is intended for people you don’t follow, but suddenly send you an annoying message from scratch. This filter can effectively prevent this, so that you never see the message.
You activate the Twitter filters as follows:
- Install update 6.60 from Twitter or higher;
- Go to the tab with Notifications;
- Tap the gear at the top left of the screen;
- In the next screen, set the top two switches to green to activate the two filters.
As Twitter also writes in the blog, this is a gradual rollout of the function. The update may already be in the App Store for you, but that does not mean that the cogwheel already appears in the Notifications tab. In that case, you will have to wait for Twitter to make the feature available for your account.