Using \thanks and \footnote without numbering/mark and line

Question

I want to use \thanks and \footnote without any numbering/mark with my title. Is there a way to do it?

I use:

\documentclass[letterpaper,twocolumn,10pt]{article}

after Alan Munn's answer it works for the numbering or mark, but what about the line just above the footnote?

Answer 1

As the comments suggest, there may be some issues with the particular document class you are using, but with the regular article or scrartcl classes (but not with classes that create a title page) you can simply redefine \footnotemark in your preamble. This won't affect the further use of footnotes in the document (which I assume you still want to have numbered normally.) I've also added code to remove the footnote rule.

\documentclass{article}
\author{An Author}
\title{A title\thanks{Some thanks}}
\renewcommand\footnotemark{}
\renewcommand\footnoterule{}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
Some text\footnote{Hello}
\end{document}