Twitter isn't perfect. In fact, it's downright annoying most of the time -- and fixing the problem isn't as simple as deleting the people you find annoying and adding new ones.

Sometimes these people are good friends, co-workers, and even family members. Outside of Twitter they're great, but on Twitter they just can't seem to stop posting cat memes and flooding your feed with hundreds of useless updates that nobody cares about.

Here's the good news: you can mute them.

To illustrate, I'm going to mute my writing colleague, Mihir Patkar. He's obviously gone off the deep end by criticizing my favorite Indian food and we don't need that kind of negativity in our lives.

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To mute someone, click the ellipsis (...) under one of their status updates and select Mute. When muting someone, you keep your Twitter connection but you won't see anything they Tweet unless you go to their profile. This is different from blocking, which completely removes them as a connection.

If you don't want to mute anyone, you can do what I do: avoid your primary feed and use lists.

I'm a huge proponent of lists. Lists are a great way to separate the updates you want to see from all the spam and nonsense that you're sick of seeing. To make a list, just follow our Twitter list tutorial.

Pro tip: You can follow the MakeUseOf team by subscribing to this list.

What are your Twitter likes and dislikes? Share them with us in the comments below. 

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