I’m a big proponent of Twitter events as a way to make connections with others, but there are a lot of them and more all the time.
Sometimes, you’re not going to be interested in the subject matter, which is no one’s fault.
Instead of tolerating a slew of incongruous tweets from your friends or, even worse, unfollowing them just because they are interacting with others, here are some options for how to mute hashtags.
Within TweetDeck, you can use the Global Filter for three options:
Text content, Author or Sources (their examples are “API, facebook”)
Find the little cog wheel, go to Settings, Global filter and choose what you want filtered.
I can’t find anything that suggests you can filter things you don’t want, just filter for keyword and Klout score. This is one of the many reasons I don’t like HootSuite.
Their answer is that you can do it in search or keyword columns, but not in your main feed, which seems pretty useless to me.
Maybe they’ll get it. If they do, let me know.
Web Browser/Mobile
If you use FriendFeed, you can just use the ‘Hide’ button. Here’s a more detailed post on it from Dan Dashnaw.
Tweetfilter works on Firefox, Chrome, Opera and IE 8+
The instructions differ based on your browser, so just click the above link.
The Proxlet extension is an easier option for Google Chrome.
Proxlet also works with Twitter clients on desktop or mobile. As of this writing, Proxlet supports:
- TweetDeck Desktop
- Twitter for iPhone
- Twidroyd
- Seesmic for Android
- Spaz
If you’re looking for a mobile client that includes it, I currently use Plume for Android. TweetCaster is available on iPhone and Android and has a “Zip It” function that does the same thing.
Thanks to this Quora post for a lot of this information.
Update: 12/20/2011: Revised TweetDeck info and changed Tweetfilter URL.
Update: 1/20/2012: Added more mobile options.
Update: 1/26/2012: Added FriendFeed.
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