How to turn on Twitter's quality filters and silence trolls

Twitter has a solution for stopping the hate on its social network: put trolls in cones of silence.

- Ian Paul

Twitter has finally come up with a solution to muzzle trolls. The company recently published a blog post announcing two new controls for filtering your notifications. Twitter notifications are the primary method through which trolls can contact and harass users.

The first new setting reduces the noise in your notifications stream. By default, anyone who mentions your Twitter username with the @ symbol shows up in your Twitter notifications. It doesn’t matter if they’re asking a simple question, offering constructive criticism, or threatening to cut your head off. Everyone shows up.

The new setting filters your notification down to solely people you follow. The new filter works on Twitter’s apps and the website. It’s not clear if third-party Twitter apps can also apply it.