Here are some terms to mute on Twitter to clean your timeline up a bit.

twittermute.txt

Mute these words in your settings here: https://twitter.com/settings/muted_keywords

ActivityTweet
generic_activity_highlights
generic_activity_momentsbreaking
RankedOrganicTweet
suggest_activity
suggest_activity_feed
suggest_activity_highlights
suggest_activity_tweet
suggest_grouped_tweet_hashtag
suggest_pyle_tweet
suggest_ranked_organic_tweet
suggest_ranked_timeline_tweet
suggest_recap
suggest_recycled_tweet
suggest_recycled_tweet_inline
suggest_sc_tweet
suggest_timeline_tweet
suggest_who_to_follow
suggestactivitytweet
suggestpyletweet
suggestrecycledtweet_inline

@TylerBussel - I think you're right, this does nothing, maybe @IanColdwater can edit this gist so this is not burried.

I had been playing with uBlockOrigin settings at the same time as I was playing with these, and going back and replicating, even taking some time to see if things took a while to take effect- I can't see any effect/replicate what I initially saw. And there is this:

https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1220872428605317122

Though if you read carefully there is wiggle room- they may have some other effect, but that seems to be grasping at straws.

But, until we get proof (screenshots(?)), this is bogus.

This has come up several times in the past. We made some changes to the timeline settings + someone released a JS plugin that did some blocking, so it caused some confusion and people thought muting via keyword mute did something.

Not all heroes where capes.

Worked for me. Made twitter usable. Thanks.

@madaboutcode's thing worked for me. Thanks!

👏

What does this do exactly?

In case anyone wants to fully automate entering these in. I took @j6k4m8's snippet and expanded on it.

1. Visit https://twitter.com/settings/muted_keywords

2. Open your browser's dev tools (note: this does work in Chrome)

3. Paste the following code in:

const delayMs = 500; // change this if you feel like its running too fast

const keywords = `ActivityTweet
generic_activity_highlights
generic_activity_momentsbreaking
RankedOrganicTweet
suggest_activity
suggest_activity_feed
suggest_activity_highlights
suggest_activity_tweet
suggest_grouped_tweet_hashtag
suggest_pyle_tweet
suggest_ranked_organic_tweet
suggest_ranked_timeline_tweet
suggest_recap
suggest_recycled_tweet
suggest_recycled_tweet_inline
suggest_sc_tweet
suggest_timeline_tweet
suggest_who_to_follow
suggestactivitytweet
suggestpyletweet
suggestrecycledtweet_inline`.split(/\W+/);

const nativeInputValueSetter = Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(window.HTMLInputElement.prototype, "value").set;

const addMutedKeyword = keyword => {
  const input = document.querySelector("[name='keyword']");
  nativeInputValueSetter.call(input, keyword);
  input.dispatchEvent(new Event('input', { bubbles: true }));
  document.querySelector("[data-testid='settingsDetailSave']").click();
}

const delay = () => {
  return new Promise(res => setTimeout(res, delayMs));
};

keywords.reduce(async (prev, keyword) => {
  await prev;
  document.querySelector("a[href='/settings/add_muted_keyword']").click();
  await delay();
  addMutedKeyword(keyword);
  return delay();
}, Promise.resolve());

Worked for me #firefox

Muting these keywords appears to have no effect, at least in new web Twitter. Promoted tweets and follow suggestions still appear, and at the same rate as without the keywords muted.

I'm going to chalk this one up to the placebo effect. Adding these mutes and refreshing the feed will remove promoted tweets, but only because refreshing removes promoted tweets anyway. This reminds me of when D&D Online players believed that using the Diplomacy skill on a chest gave you better loot, so nobody could get a raid together without a high-ranking Diplomacy guy. Community moderators insisted that it had no effect, but nobody believed them. When the devs fixed the bug that let you talk to chests, players complained that their chest-ambassador characters had been nerfed and demanded the feature return.

Now, what was true is that in old Twitter, these "keywords" used to be used as CSS class names on Twitter, so you could write a custom CSS or adblock rule or something to hide these classes, and it would block promoted and suggested tweets very effectively. I suspect that at some point, someone got confused and thought these were keyword mutes, and the superstition spread because nobody tried to apply the scientific method to test whether keyword mutes actually worked.

Muting these keywords appears to have no effect, at least in new web Twitter. Promoted tweets and follow suggestions still appear, and at the same rate as without the keywords muted.

Thanks for the confirmation.

I can confirm that this “works” when you first reload the page, but has no actual long term effect.

~ still I see retweets, like, and follow

~ still I see retweets, like, and follow

@kaisdavis Yes you will see the expected user content, it just removes garbage

Which code work for hide likes !?

Thanks, this was very necessary.

Which code work for hide likes !?

@rammahamazing this is the point of Twitter.

Any new term to mute these voice tweets?

In case anyone wants to fully automate entering these in. I took @j6k4m8's snippet and expanded on it.

1. Visit https://twitter.com/settings/muted_keywords
2. Open your browser's dev tools (note: this does work in Chrome)
3. Paste the following code in:

const delayMs = 500; // change this if you feel like its running too fast

const keywords = `ActivityTweet
generic_activity_highlights
generic_activity_momentsbreaking
RankedOrganicTweet
suggest_activity
suggest_activity_feed
suggest_activity_highlights
suggest_activity_tweet
suggest_grouped_tweet_hashtag
suggest_pyle_tweet
suggest_ranked_organic_tweet
suggest_ranked_timeline_tweet
suggest_recap
suggest_recycled_tweet
suggest_recycled_tweet_inline
suggest_sc_tweet
suggest_timeline_tweet
suggest_who_to_follow
suggestactivitytweet
suggestpyletweet
suggestrecycledtweet_inline`.split(/\W+/);

const nativeInputValueSetter = Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(window.HTMLInputElement.prototype, "value").set;

const addMutedKeyword = keyword => {
  const input = document.querySelector("[name='keyword']");
  nativeInputValueSetter.call(input, keyword);
  input.dispatchEvent(new Event('input', { bubbles: true }));
  document.querySelector("[data-testid='settingsDetailSave']").click();
}

const delay = () => {
  return new Promise(res => setTimeout(res, delayMs));
};

keywords.reduce(async (prev, keyword) => {
  await prev;
  document.querySelector("a[href='/settings/add_muted_keyword']").click();
  await delay();
  addMutedKeyword(keyword);
  return delay();
}, Promise.resolve());

Awesome.. Thank you.

awesome!
i recommend to add who_to_follow_entry

Would be great to have an explanation about what this is doing.

@heygambo, to simplify... that code add to your twitter muted list. That's it nothing more. You can read it BTW. It's there

I couldn't get this code to work on chrome, so I go to dev tools and paste it? But where, edit html and just paste?

Use by pasting in the Console tab of the debug tools, while on the appropriate site in your Twitter settings.

@BenBE Thank you! Is this still working? Seems like some people are saying it doesn't work anymore.

Not tested recently.

Can confirm this still works, but i'd love to know which to add to get rid of those newly added topic following recommendations on the timeline.

This appears to have stopped working for me in the last couple of weeks. That, or there are new keywords that need to get added to the list. Any ideas on how to fix it? And any thoughts on how to keep this updated over time? I've seen similar lists posted on various websites (e.g. https://howtodotechystuff.wordpress.com/2019/07/23/make-twitter-useable-again/), but I have no idea how people are determining the set of topics.

I feel like something has changed, in recent days this list has been completely ineffective for me.

Does anyone have a way to capture new IDs? I tried inspecting element and wasn't able to see an ID

Hi! Thank you for this gist, has been super useful to me. Does anyone know if there's a phrase I can mute to stop seeing tweets from "Suggested Topics"?

I use @catarino version, thanks!

@madaboutcode's version of the automation script works well in Firefox.