{"id":3578,"date":"2014-02-07T15:22:51","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T15:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/?p=3578"},"modified":"2014-02-09T21:07:37","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T21:07:37","slug":"twitter-notifications-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/twitter-notifications-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Notifications"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day I was seething<\/a> about my inability to turn off a particular type of Twitter notification in the Twitter Android app.<\/p>\n

I’m talking about ones that say something like “@user1 and @user2 are talking about #subject” and urging me to join the conversation. <\/p>\n

My problem is that these just aren’t intelligent. If there was a sports event taking place, then people I follow who like that kind of sport might well be talking about it. But you know what? I’m well aware that if I want to talk sport on Twitter, I can do.<\/p>\n

The notifications are just annoying. I try to keep all Android app notifications down to what I consider the most important ones. What I consider important and what you consider important may vary. But I just want to be able to control them. <\/p>\n

Of course, I could just turn off all notifications and be done. But on the other hand, I quite like getting relevant notifications – perhaps when people have replied to something I’ve said or asked, or want to ask me something.<\/p>\n

Anyway, it turns out that there is a solution, even though it’s not very intuitive – at least to me.<\/p>\n

To turn off these “recommendations” you should go press the menu button (top right) and choose Settings<\/strong>. Then select your account – you may have more than one of course. Press the name of the correct account.<\/p>\n

It was the next bit that fooled me. All I could see was a general “Notifications” menu item with a check box. But it turns out that there’s a sub-menu underneath! If you press the word Notifications<\/strong> you can configure exactly which kind of notifications Twitter can send you. You want to turn off Recommendations<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I also think that you need to restart the app to make it work.<\/p>\n