Elon Musk's brother Kimbal says there's a 'lack of appreciation' for Twitter's 'awesome' mute button

Kimbal Musk said Twitter's mute button is "underused."

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• Elon Musk's brother said there's a "lack of appreciation" for Twitter's "awesome" mute button.
• Kimbal Musk spoke about his love of the feature in a Twitter Space on Friday with Lex Fridman.
• They discussed ways of improving Twitter and Kimbal Musk said the mute button was "underused." 

Elon Musk's brother said there's a "lack of appreciation" for Twitter's "awesome" mute button. 

Speaking in a Twitter Space organized by podcast host Lex Fridman on Friday, Kimbal Musk discussed "How to improve Twitter" and talked about some of the changes his brother implemented since taking over the company on October 27.

"There's a lack of appreciation for the mute button on Twitter," he said. "If you really want to clean up your feed, be one of those guys that don't want to enjoy that particular piece of drama, muting is just awesome.

"That feature is just underused on Twitter and I think my brother has plans to incorporate it into just the algorithm as well."

Twitter didn't immediately respond to a request for comment by Insider.

Kimbal Musk, who's a year younger than his 51-year-old brother, owns The Kitchen Restaurant Group that operates sites in Colorado, Chicago, and Indianapolis. The company's LinkedIn page says dining at its restaurants is like "a celebration at a best friend's house."

During the Twitter Space, Kimbal Musk also said he loved the "entertaining side of Twitter," and wished there was more of it. He added that debate on political topics, such as former President Donald Trump's tax returns, "bores me to tears," but when "it gets entertaining I'm in love with Twitter."

Kimbal Musk concluded: "Man, how do we get more of that?"

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