New(?) Twitter feature

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I just discovered what could be a recently-added Twitter feature. It's new to me anyway.

Are there people you follow on Twitter who are *constantly* retweeting things? While I don't follow very many people, there are a few of them who retweet dozens and dozens of items every day (with most of the items coming from other people I'm already following). While I don't want to mute or unfollow these people, their retweets do get really annoying.

As I was about to mute one especially prolific retweeter, I noticed a new menu item under the "Tools" menu -- "Turn off Retweets". (Click on the gear icon on a person's profile to see this.) If this feature works like I expect it to, I'll still be able to see original tweets from these folks but I won't need to be bothered reading past their excessive retweets.

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Helpful information Bob, I've met similar re-tweet issues.

Thanks, Desmond

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Great tip. Thanks.

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Turn off retweets is a good tool to have. Thank You for Sharing Bob !!

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Interesting to know that. If only I could get into tweeting. It seems like it would take up all of my time. Thanks for sharing. Donna

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Since I deliberately limit my twitter involvement, it doesn't take up much of my time at all. I'm only following my two favorite sports teams and a few of my favorite political commentators. (While I'd have to check, I think I have a total of three people following me.) That's about it. I very rarely, if ever, send anything out.

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Yes, if I did it that would be the way. I do FB similar. I usually only get on there from 10 - 11 PM. If I did not do it that way then I would be on it all day & I have better things to do w/my time. Ha!

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Go for it Bob. Good information

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That is wonderful to know, thank you! Christa :)

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Good to know. Thank you.

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Thanks for the info.

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Never knew that. That's the problem of following people with the same interests as yourself, everyone tends to find the same things interesting retweet the same stuff.

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Thanks for sharing this!
I've used Twitter off and on for years, and didn't know that you could turn off people's excessive retweets.
That's good to know.

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I just saw this capability for the first time yesterday. I'm almost certain that it was added in the most recent Twitter update.

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