If you’re using the Twitter app on an iPhone, it’s a quick and easy process:

• Long-press on the word you want to mute.
• Choose “Mute” from the pop-up menu.
• You’ll be sent to a page where you can choose from where you want to mute the word (your timeline or notifications), from whom (anyone or people you don’t follow), and the duration (forever, 24 hours, seven days, or 30 days).

If you’ve got an Android phone, don’t despair. You can also mute words from the Android Twitter app (or, for that matter, from the iOS Twitter app) through the app’s settings. It’s not quite as fast as doing it directly from a tweet, but it’s just as effective.

• Select your icon on the upper left corner.
• Select “Settings and privacy” > “Privacy and safety” > “Mute and block.”
• Tap “Muted words.”
• Tap the plus sign and enter the word you want to mute. You then get the same choices as to where, from whom, and duration.

If you no longer want to mute the word or you want to extend the mute time, return to the “Muted words” screen, tap on the word in question, and choose the corresponding option (“Delete word” or “Change mute time”).

And finally, if you’re tweeting directly from Twitter’s website, you can mute a word from there as well.

• On your desktop, from the left-hand menu, click on “More” > “Settings and privacy” > “Privacy and safety” > “Mute and block.”
• In the right column, click on “Muted words.” Click on the plus sign in the upper right corner.
• Now you can enter the word or phrase you want to mute. As with the mobile Twitter apps, you can choose whether to mute from your timeline or notifications, from anyone or people you don’t follow, and for how long.

• When you’ve made all your choices, click on “Save.”
• If you want to unmute any words, go back to the “Muted words” column. Click on the red crossed-out volume symbol to the right of the word, and then click “Unmute” on the pop-up window that appears.