# Twitter notifications explained: tabs, filters and the missing alert

> Where X's push, web and email notifications are set, what the quality filter, advanced filters and muted words hide, and how to get the alert X won't send.

URL: https://claudegpt.si/news/twitter-notifications-explained-filters  
Published: 2026-11-04T06:00:34.932Z  
Author: ClaudeGPT Si Newsroom  
Section: Guides  
Topics: X (Twitter), Notifications, Muted words  
Publisher: ClaudeGPT Si

## Key takeaways

- X's Notifications tab has three views, All, Mentions and Verified, and push, web and email notifications are each set in their own menu.
- The quality filter, advanced filters and muted words can hide notifications, but none of them filters people you follow, and muted words don't block post notifications you switched on.
- X has no alert for a phrase posted by anyone; an AyeWatch X search monitor sends new matching posts, with push on every plan and paid plans from $9 a month.

Twitter notifications, now X notifications, live in three places: the Notifications tab, push alerts on your phone, and web or email notices, and each one has its own settings. All of them report on activity around your account and the accounts you follow. For a word, a product or a company name posted by anyone, you need an outside monitor such as AyeWatch.

## The Notifications tab

The tab has three views. All shows new followers, reposts, likes and mentions. Mentions narrows it to posts that tag your handle. Verified shows only notifications from accounts with a blue check mark. X also says it adds content it expects you to find interesting, so the tab is not a pure log of what happened to you.

## Push, web and email are separate switches

| Channel | Where to set it | What it covers |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Phone push | Settings and privacy, then Notifications, Preferences, Push notifications | Mentions, replies, reposts, likes, follows, messages, posts from accounts you switched on, plus X suggestions such as news and Spaces |
| Browser | Settings, then Web notifications on x.com (browser alerts need Chrome or Firefox) | Messages, follows, likes, replies, mentions, reposts |
| Email | Settings and privacy, then Notifications, Email notifications | Activity on your own account, often rolled into a digest |

Two details catch people out. Push on your phone and web notifications are configured apart, so fixing one does nothing for the other. And X's help pages say it won't send a web or email notice for every single event, so a missing ping is not always a bug.

## The filters that quietly hide things

**Quality filter.** It removes lower-quality items such as duplicate posts and content that looks automated. It never filters people you follow or accounts you've talked to recently, and it is on by default if you're new or just reinstalled the app. Find it under the gear icon in the Notifications tab on mobile, or under Settings on desktop.

**Advanced filters.** These silence notifications from groups of accounts you don't follow: brand-new accounts, accounts that don't follow you, accounts with a default profile photo, and accounts without a confirmed email or phone number. If one of your posts suddenly gets a lot of attention, X may prompt you to switch some of these on.

**Muted words.** You can mute a word, phrase, username, emoji or hashtag for 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days or forever. Muting ignores case, and muting a word also mutes its hashtag. One exception is easy to miss: muted words don't block post notifications from an account you turned them on for. Muted posts also still appear in search.

## The alert X doesn't have

Nothing in those menus says "tell me when anyone posts this phrase". Post notifications exist only for accounts you follow, and they arrive in the app. If you're tracking a launch, a rival, or the next round of jokes about your company's outage, you're back to running searches by hand and hoping you didn't miss the thread that mattered.

[AyeWatch](https://ayewatch.ai) closes that gap. Create an X search monitor with your query (quotes, OR, minus words, from:, lang:), optionally tell its AI which posts count, and it sends new matches with their text and a link. It can also watch a single profile without you following it. Push and the in-app feed come with every plan; paid plans, from $9 a month, add email, Slack, Discord and webhooks. It reads public posts only, so protected accounts and DMs stay out of reach.

If your problem is that notifications are noisy rather than incomplete, X's own filters are the right fix, and they cost nothing.

## Frequently asked questions

### Why am I not getting Twitter notifications?

Check that push is on for the type you expect under Settings and privacy, Notifications, Preferences, then look at the quality filter, advanced filters and muted words. X also says it may not notify you of every event.

### What does the Verified tab in X notifications show?

Only notifications from accounts with verified blue check marks. All shows every type of activity, and Mentions shows posts that tag your username.

### Can X notify me when someone posts a keyword?

Not natively. A tool such as AyeWatch runs an X search on a schedule and alerts you when new posts match.

## Sources

- [About the Notifications timeline](https://help.x.com/en/managing-your-account/understanding-the-notifications-timeline), X Help Center
- [About notifications on mobile devices](https://help.x.com/en/managing-your-account/notifications-on-mobile-devices), X Help Center
- [How to use advanced muting options](https://help.x.com/en/using-x/advanced-x-mute-options), X Help Center
- [How to enable web and browser notifications](https://help.x.com/en/managing-your-account/enabling-web-and-browser-notifications), X Help Center
- [How to update your email preferences](https://help.x.com/en/managing-your-account/updating-email-preferences), X Help Center
- [AyeWatch for X (Twitter) monitoring](https://ayewatch.ai/x), AyeWatch