How to Remove All Retweets and Quote Tweets From Your Twitter Timeline
Are retweets and quote tweets clogging up your Twitter home timeline? Here’s a quick guide on how to remove anyone from your timeline so you don’t have to search through them to find the tweets you want to see.
Retweets and quote tweets can be annoying
You see all these tweets from people you don’t follow or even know on your home timeline. This can understandably be frustrating. Many of these tweets are likely to be retweets and quote tweets, and there is an easy way to remove them.
A retweet is when someone reposts someone else’s tweet on their own account. You see retweets from people on your timeline (or your home feed). Grayed out text will appear above the tweet that says “Example name retweeted” with a small retweet icon that looks like two arrows.
A quote tweet is a retweet that has some of the retweeter’s content or text attached to it. The added content will appear above the original tweet.
Why you want to remove retweets
Think about why you use Twitter. Are you looking for the latest news? Want to see what your friends are up to? Or maybe you want to join the conversation about a live event or show.
These reasons can affect whether retweets are positive additions to your timeline or get in the way of the content you actually want to see. Retweets help expand the account and content types you see, so you can discover new things that might interest you.
But retweets and quote tweets can also clog up your home timeline. Retweeting is as easy as tapping a button. You can also make your Twitter timeline less toxic by turning off inflammatory retweets and quote tweets. The method in this article will show you how to completely mute these reposts and replies.
How to remove retweets from your timeline
To remove retweets from your timeline in the Twitter mobile app, you need to use a simple workaround by blocking the retweet backend code. Just use the following steps:
1. Tap your Profile picture icon top left of the screen
2. Scroll down and tap Settings and Privacy
3. Tap Privacy and Security
4. Tap Mute and Block then muffled words
5. Tap Add to in the lower right corner and type “RT @”
Once you return to your home timeline, you’ll find that there are no more retweets.
Use the same process for quote tweets, except for type “QT@” during the last step. Now you can only see the original tweets from all the accounts you follow!
To do this, tap on the desktop Twitter site Three dots icon in the sidebar and follow the same steps as for the app.
Retweets and quote tweets will be blocked from your home timeline on any device when you log into your account. If you change your mind and want retweets to show up again, just follow the steps to access the silent words screen and tap on the word you want to delete. Then tap delete wordand you are returned to your default home timeline.
What if you just want to block some retweets?
Maybe you have that one friend who just retweets everything and spams your timeline. You don’t want to lose all the retweets on your timeline, but you don’t want to unfollow your friend either.
There is a way to mute retweets from individual Twitter accounts by going to that account and tapping Disable retweets Possibility. This way, you won’t completely remove retweets from your timeline.
Better tweets and better content
Now that you can delete clunky retweets and quote tweets from your home timeline, you can see more of the content you actually come to Twitter for.