How to block 'Game of Thrones' spoilers, curse words and eggplant emoji on Twitter

Finally, some peace and quiet on social media. 

Twitter rolled out some new muting options today, which will allow Android and web users to hide selected words, phrases, hashtags and even emoji from their timelines and notifications for preset amounts of time. (iOS users, for now, will have to settle for blocking things from their notifications.) 

The feature was first teased last October and expanded upon earlier this month.   

Twitter has allowed its users to mute individual profiles and notifications for a while now — but the new individual word blockage can keep everything from annoying TV spoilers to offensive or triggering language off your timeline. We're not as sure why you'd ever want to hide a emoji — wait, that's fair if you never want to see 🍆🍆🍆 ever again.     Read more...