You follow people on Twitter because you're interested in what they have to say. Who they follow and retweet may not be so relevant. Here's how to cut down on the noise in your Twitter feed without unfollowing interesting people.
Disabling retweets from someone you follow is the quickest way to clean up your timeline. While many apps will let you adjust Twitter settings, to make sure your changes are universal, head to Twitter.com. Log in to your account and click on Followers below your profile avatar in the upper left-hand corner of the page. You'll be presented with all the people (or brand robots) you follow on Twitter. To disable a person's retweets from others, click on the silhouette to the left of the blue Following button. A contextual menu will appear and from there you can select Turn off Retweets.
This won't stop you from seeing manual retweets - the type that begin with RT or have quotes around the text of the original tweet. Fortunately, these always include some sort of commentary from the person you follow. And hey, additional commentary is good. Getting spammed with random tweets from strangers? Less good.
Now when that person (or brand robot) retweets every single update about an intense curling match, you'll only see their excited tweets about a wicked eight-ender.
Roberto is a Wired Staff Writer for Gadget Lab covering cord-cutting, e-readers, home technology, and all the gadgets that fit in your backpack. Got a tip? Send him an email at: roberto_baldwin [at] wired.com.
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