I don&#x27;t want to mute them because I follow their tweets and timelines! I wouldn&#x27;t hesitate to block&#x2F;ban if I didn&#x27;t find them interesting.<p>I just don&#x27;t need to be reminded about what they did &quot;while I&#x27;m away&quot; - by definition when I&#x27;m away from Twitter I&#x27;m most likely working and talking to them directly! And often I helped them write&#x2F;make&#x2F;instigate the tweet that is getting so much traffic that twitter emerges it as &quot;something hot&quot; from their account.<p>I get that I want to follow them and don&#x27;t want to mute them - just that the feature is extraneous for some types of tweets (and some classes of twitter accounts) - for example, if I follow a stock tweet - one that tweets pricing alerts for example, I don&#x27;t need to know 10+ hours later &quot;what important things they are up to&quot; because by definition, that stock tweet is no longer valid (trading day is only the length of the working day).<p>And even if I wanted historical updates, I can just go back to their timeline and&#x2F;or do a search on the stock exchange symbol.<p>Like I said, if they allowed users to filter out or filter in - or use the List feature - which a large % of twitter users know about and use, it&#x27;d be more useful.