Welcome to Open Tweet Filter

The open source browser extension to filter tweets.

If you have a lot of tweets filling your timeline about certain topic or person you are not interested in, this extension is for you. Or, as a user put it in a review, "Ahhhh, I no longer have to see intelligent people talk the same hive-minded shite about TV programs". :-)

Features:

• You can filter out tweets by their contents or by their authors.
• You can filter out tweets using regular expressions (for example, all words beginning in "auto" using: /\Wauto/)
• It supports both the "new" and the "new new" Twitter versions.

Usage

1. Install the official release from Chrome Web Store.
2. Refresh you twitter.com page.
3. Press the Filter button at the top navigation bar.
4. Enter terms separated by commas in the first field.
5. Enter user names separated by commas in the second field.
6. Toggle Including/Excluding button before each field.
7. Toggle Show report of filtered tweets checkbox.
8. Toggle Enable/Disable button in the dialog footer.
9. Press Clear to reset all fields.

Feel free to experiment the effect of all these settings. The tweets are not deleted but just hidden, so you can get them back any time by disabling the filter or changing the criteria.

NOTE: We respect your privacy, so no data is sent to any server. Your filters are processed in your computer and stored in your browser local storage (so please, keep a copy of your filters in a safe place).

To suggest a feature, report a bug, or general discussion: http://github.com/rstuven/OpenTweetFilter/issues/

Development

1. Install Node.js, and then the CoffeeScript compiler:

    sudo bin/cake install
   

2. Or, if you have the Node Package Manager installed:

    npm install -g coffee-script
   

   (Leave off the -g if you don't wish to install globally.)

3. Fork and clone the repository, then build the extension:

    cake build
   

   (To see more commands, just type cake.)

4. In Google Chrome, open Tools > Extensions, activate Developer mode, then Load unpacked extension and select the build directory.

5. Disable the version installed from Chrome Web Store, if applies.

Acknowledgements

Open Tweet Filter logo by @StoicYoic using Twitter Bird by ~freakyframes and Funnel Icon by IconEden.

License

Licensed under the MIT License Copyright 2012 Ricardo Stuven