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I just recently learned you can hide retweets from your timeline for an individual user. I don't think you can turn off the likes, but that would be a good addition.

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Yep, me as well, I wish I could activate that globally for all people I follow at the same time. Retweets are the worse in terms of useless signaling. They also added a filter filtering tweets containing words. What I would like is the opposite, for user U, filter all tweets that do not contain word X,Y,Z so people stay on topic. I'd also like to see a record of the tweet that made me follow user U.

There is quite A LOT of that these platforms can do if really want to make the experience better and stop the flow of information that is completely irrelevant to the user.

I believe the "don't show retweets for x user" feature is limited to the web interface and is not available in the mobile/desktop apps, which is basically the only way I consume Twitter. Which is disappointing. I may be wrong here (I hope).

You are wrong, it is available in the apps as well.

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