How to bail out of noisy Twitter conversations using mute

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by Sindy Cator on March 19, 2015 at 4:48 pm

While you can drop out of a Twitter group DM, you’re still stuck in any public Twitter conversation that include your user name. This phenom is also referred to as a canoe (because they’re long boats filled with people?). Sometimes these conversations go for hours – even days – filling your notifications with inane comments about nothing. If you’re trapped in one of those god-awful public conversations, you can drop out without the rest of the members knowing by muting one of the members. Before you fire up the Twitter site and start muting people, stop. That’s just going to mute tweets from…