Twitter is reportedly testing a snooze feature for push notifications

If all of those Twitter push notifications feel overwhelming at times, you might be in luck. The company is reportedly testing out a snooze feature that will allow users to halt those alerts for a few hours at a time.

Via The Verge, security and app expert Jane Manchun Wong found the potential new feature hidden in the code for the Android mobile Twitter app. As it’s designed right now, the feature would allow users to pause notifications in one, three, and 12 hour increments. 

Regarding the test, a Twitter spokesperson told Mashable via email, “Our teams are always thinking of new features for people to personalize their experience on Twitter. We’ll share more details on individual experiments as they’re live for people to test soon.”

Twitter, like other social media platforms, is known to test new features frequently, even ones that will never be implemented. From hiding replies to specific tweets, to an “original tweeter” tag, the platform has been tinkering a lot recently in an effort to make the experience a bit more pleasant.

Of course, having push notifications for Twitter on your phone can drive you up a wall, depending on who you have alerts for, so simply turning off all push notifications is also an option that might go a long way toward giving you some peace.

It’s also worth noting that there are a lot of other steps Twitter could take to make being on their platform less of a dumpster fire than the snooze feature, like actually adhering to their own rules and being proactive about harassment. 

But, for now, even the little steps are worth exploring, so keep your eyes open for this, and other, possible new features.