Filtering @ replies from your Twitter feed
Twitter is simultaneously a “micro-blogging” platform and IRC 2.0 (as many people have dubbed it), meaning that it sometimes becomes a giant chat channel. Many people (like I do) use what they write on Twitter to enhance their own blogs, or feed it (along with other sources) to services like Friendfeed.
The problem with this is that the ratio between your “original” content and replies to other Twitter users becomes very low, and these so called “@ replies” have little value for people that aren’t in on the conversation.
Continuing my love affair with Yahoo Pipes, I’ve created a really simple pipe that will fetch your non-protected Twitter feed, and filter out all the @ replies. It will also remove the “nickname: ” prefix from the start of each tweet. Just input your twitter username on the form, run the pipe, and choose the “Get as RSS” from under “More options”, inside the “Use this Pipe” section. Feel free to clone it and improve it.
Well… it's a free world, don't use it! You should use your time to complain (perhaps in a constructive way?) about the things that forcibly affect your life…
This is great! Thanks for doing this.
[...] Filtering @ replies from your Twitter feed « matsu [...]
[...] RSS feed for @freshmn tweets. If you want the bonus content, you can subscribe to it separately. I filtered out all the @ replies with Yahoo! Pipes, so you get my original tweets and retweets without the context-less conversational [...]
Neat!! Vou pegar na ideia, ou no feed 
Thanks
Good ones! I just started using TweetDeck. LOTS of potential. Can’t wait for the iPhone version… then I might buy an iPhone!
Cheers!
steve
Thanks a lot! You saved me from having to write this filter in PHP, in which I’m not a big expert )
Fantastic!
Exactly what I needed to avoid all the @replies to be feed in my blog.
Great work. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks! You easily saved me the time I would have wasted doing this in Pipes myself. It would be nice if it could be stripped down even further to just show the title and not the content (as that’s just a repeat of the title, and with the nickname back in) but this is very nice.
Good job! Just what I was looking for.
perfect! exactly what i needed all set up and ready to go in seconds just by plugging in my name. thanks
Thank you so much! This is exactly what I needed. I am using simplepie.inc to import my Twitter status to my website, but it did not include a way to exclude @replies, so this solved it perfectly!
[...] I took a Yahoo! Pipe created by mat.su that basically replaced the part where the author’s name would be with a “^” and [...]
If you want to do this without using Yahoo Pipes, you can filter out @replies with a short bit of javascript added to your blog page. Have a look here for my script to do the necessary filtering:
http://t-swamp.blogspot.com/2009/06/filtering-replies-out-of-twitter-badge.html
This is Indeed Very awsome Thank you!
Thanks, very useful.
In case anyone else is trying to get this to work, I successfully combined your pipe with the Twitter for Wordpress plugin by editing the plugin php – look for the “$messages = fetch_rss” line and change the url to the rss feed that this pipe creates.
This worked great for me along with the wordpress simplepie plugin.
Thanks!
twitter sucks. its utterly useless. it's a screwed up and badly implemented irc.