Is there any easy way to know if you have been muted by someone on Twitter? I have checked online and reddit and I can’t seem to find any way to find out. Figured I would ask here since the users here are more into privacy related topics.
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Honest answer? You can’t know for sure. That’s the whole point of the feature is it lets people silence you without the drama. You’re not really supposed to know you’re blocked. This is likely the reason twitter doesn’t share this info to the API. Any of these 3rd party sites that claim they can tell you if you’ve been muted are liars.
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To add some technical context to D-Mag’s point:
The Twitter/X API (v2) specifically exposes a muting field in the User object, but this is strictly for the authenticated user’s perspective. Basically, it only shows people you have muted. There is no inverse muted_by relationship exposed in the public endpoints.
When you request a timeline, the server filters out content based on the viewer’s mute list before sending the JSON payload to the client. Unlike blocking, which actually returns a specific error code (often 403 Forbidden) or a blocks_incoming flag, muting is completely silent at the network layer.
The client literally receives no data indicating a relationship change. The only theoretical way to detect it is via social graph heuristics, like analyzing engagement drop-offs or using a separate account to verify visibility. But deterministically checking via the API is impossible by design.
there is no way of knowing with 100% certainty but the tips provided above can sometimes give you some hints
X’s mute feature is the quiet version of privacy.
I mean yeah it’s frustrating to be on the receiving end of it, but its a core part of how people manage their social media space without the confrontation of an outright block. If you think you got muted the best move is usually to just stop tagging and replying that person, atleast for a while. If you eventually use a tool to clean up your old mentions or replies to them, you might find that they ‘unmute’ you later when the feed noise dies down?