Mute tweets in Tweetbot by regular expressions
Tags: regex, twitter, productivity
Published: 2019-06-21 13:41:08

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title: Mute tweets in Tweetbot by regular expressions
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tags: regex, regularexpressions, twitter, productivity
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description: In a time where internet outrage is at its peak, one way to escape this is by mute keywords, hashtags and by using regular expressions.
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In a time where internet outrage is at its peak, one way to escape this is by mute keywords, hashtags and by using regular expressions.

[Twitter](https://twitter.com/ "Twitter") is the only social network I use one a daily basis. I switched to [Tweetbot](https://tapbots.com/tweetbot/ "Official page of Tweetbot") years ago as my primary [Twitter](https://twitter.com/ "Twitter") client and one of the features I miss in the official client are the possibility to mute tweets by regular expressions or by specified clients.

I wanted to write down some regular expressions and muted clients I use in Tweetbot to keep my timeline cleaner.

## Muted tweets by regular expressions

Here are some examples of regular expressions that I mute with Tweetbot.

By default, mentions, searches and lists are not affected by regular expression. But it's possible to enable it for every regular expression.

### I'm not interested in public mentions or conversations

I didn't want to see conversations between other people only because I follow both of them. This regular expressions mute mentions for you also! That means you only see this in your mentions pane.   
 Mute all tweets beginning with: `@foo`, `.@foo`, `. @foo` or ` . @foo`.

`^\s?\.?\s?@`

### Mostly, tweets with more than two #Hashtags are uninteresting

Mute all tweets with more than two hashtags like `foo bar [...] #first #second #third`

`#[^#]+#[^#]+#`

### Tweets with long #hashtags are not really exciting

Mute all tweets with a hashtag that contains more than 15 characters like `foo bar [...] #veryLongHashtag`

`#[^]{15}`

### Bawler

Mute all tweets with more than 2 uppercase words like `YOU'RE SO WRONG`

`(([A-Z]{2,})\s?){3,}`

## Mute tweet by clients

The clients below are used for advertising, cross posting or automated tweets.

Mute a client affects your timeline, mentions, searches and lists.

- Buffer
- IFTTT
- Foursquare
- Instagram
- Facebook
- Foursquare Swarm
- HobSpot
- Twitter Ads Composer
- Twitter Media Studio
- Moa Bridge
- Falcon Social Media Management

## External links

There are some useful other pages with examples for regular expressions

- [https://urre.github.io/mutebot/](https://urre.github.io/mutebot/ "https://urre.github.io/mutebot/")
- [https://gist.github.com/jimmynotjim/3144371](https://gist.github.com/jimmynotjim/3144371 "https://gist.github.com/jimmynotjim/3144371")
- [https://nickcharlton.net/posts/tweetbot-mute-filters.html](https://nickcharlton.net/posts/tweetbot-mute-filters.html "https://nickcharlton.net/posts/tweetbot-mute-filters.html")
- [https://spikelynch.github.io/regexps/](https://spikelynch.github.io/regexps/ "https://spikelynch.github.io/regexps/")

Try your own regular expressions

- [https://regex101.com/](https://regex101.com/ "https://regex101.com/")

A curated list of words, you can mute
- [https://mute.life/](https://mute.life/ "https://mute.life/")