Hey Twitter, keep it down!

In today’s fast pace always connected world, it’s nearly impossible to miss an episode of your favorite TV show or live event without someone spoiling what you missed. To avoid someone ruining your day, you simply need to not leave your house, check your phone or turn your computer on. But that’s easier said than done! Fortunately, Twitter has taken the first step towards avoiding these inconsiderate individuals by rolling out a ‘Mute’ button for users.

The Mute button allows you to keep following a person but helps get rid of annoying or spammy tweets from their account. The company wrote, “Today we’re beginning to introduce a new account feature called “Mute” to people who use our iPhone and Android apps and twitter.com. Mute gives you even more control over the content you see on Twitter by letting you remove a user’s content from key parts of your Twitter experience.”

Once you Mute a user, their tweets and retweets will no longer be visible on your timeline, and you will not get push or SMS notifications from them. However, the muted user will still be able to favorite, reply to, and retweet your tweets.

So if you’re like me and missed this past weeks Game of Thrones episode, you could put your friends who talk about the show on mute and stop them from ruining the episode for you (FYI — I finally watched it and it was awesome!). I’m sure the Mute button wont cure all spoilers, but it’s a very good start and step in the right direction. Check out the rest of the article and get ready for some damn peace and quiet.