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As you might have noticed, Twitter sometimes forces the display of Retweets and likes, also known as favorites, and even combines the two. Understandably, this can easily get on some users’ nerves as this is stopping them from watching the content they are using Twitter for.
If you’re among them, you’re probably thinking about how to reduce or completely hide these, and we can’t blame you. Read on to see what you can do.
The most effective way to hide all your Twitter likes is to completely remove them. Unfortunately, Twitter doesn’t offer this functionality natively. But, we can use Circleboom to remove all Twitter likes. The software also lets users delete all Tweets and Retweets.
Here’s how to remove all Twitter likes:
That’s all there is to it! Circleboom will delete all your likes up to the last 3,200. You can also upload your Twitter archive to remove the likes for your entire account history.
Ad blockers for browsers are more powerful now than ever. They can block ads in many shapes and forms. They can even block sponsored Tweets as these can really ruin the vibe by appearing everywhere. Even worse, certain Tweet likes also fall under this category.
One way to fight this is by using the AdBlock Plus Firefox plugin that has the Element Hiding Helper function. By letting you filter out an area of a Tweet, it helps you get rid of not just sponsored Tweets, but also the “Who to follow,” “Analytics,” “Moments”, and many other panels.
The only issue with this method is that it tends to hide others’ Tweets on your profile, as well as Tweets that you’ve posted that contain images. This means that it gets increasingly easy to miss others’ replies to your posts, so if you want to give this method a try, don’t forget to check for tweets and comments with photos occasionally.
Twitter has a useful option called Muted keywords. What it does is self-explanatory, but did you know that you can use it to hide suggested Tweets and menus such as “Who to Follow?”
To do this, just go to this link to access this Twitter’s setting directly, or tap the gear icon on the Twitter mobile app to enter the Settings. The most important phrases you should add to the list include:
a) ActivityTweet
b) RankedOrganicTweet
c) suggest_activity_tweet
d) suggest_activity
e) suggested_recycled_tweet_inline
f) suggested_grouped_tweet_hashtag
g) suggest_pyle_tweet
h) suggested_rank_organic_tweet
i) suggest_ranked_timeline_tweet
j) suggest_recycled_tweet
k) suggest_sc_tweet
l) suggest_recap
m) suggest_who_to_follow
n) generic_activity_Highlights
All Tweets have additional options in their top-right corners that can be accessed by clicking or tapping on the Arrow icon. On certain app versions and web browsers, there should be an option called “I don’t like this tweet.”
If it’s not there, look for “Show me less of this.” If you do this enough times, these Tweets will stop appearing because you’ve directly let Twitter know that you don’t want them on your timeline. That’s what makes this a good solution despite the time it takes for Twitter to learn its lesson.
Twitter has an algorithm that shows you the Tweets it believes you’ll like on top for a long time. Disabling this option also helps with removing the liked tweets.
While not about likes, this option might give you some peace when it comes to avoiding Tweets from strangers. If you’re using Google Chrome, you can turn off all Retweets manually with relative ease. However, this will take some time, especially if you follow lots of people. This is a workaround method, after all, as Twitter doesn’t let you do this.
Note: You’ll have to repeat this for each of your new follows.
Unfortunately, you can only partially hide your Tweets. The only known way to do so is to make your profile private and the only persons affected this way are those that aren’t following you already. To make your profile private, you need to enable the “Protect my Tweets” option:
Note: If you don’t do this, your profile will stay public. That said, if you want to make it public again, you should uncheck the “Protect my Tweets” checkbox.
When your profile is private, as already mentioned, other users need to start following you before being able to access your liked Tweets.
Although not the most useful method, you can simply “unlike” or “unfavorite” a Tweet if you really don’t want others to see that you’ve liked it.
The best way to escape the social network craze is to just stop using them, but since that’s not very easy to do, but hopefully this is a good alternative. If you find security on Twitter very important, be sure to make your profile private.
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