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Mute filters for Tweetbot

A bunch of regexes for muting on TweetBot, the popular iOS/Mac twitter app. It is recommended you test regexes with some tweet text (TweetBot lets you copy a tweet’s text) so paste it on regexr.com The TweetBot app also shows you how many tweets are returned from your timeline for said regex, check these!

Check-ins, social sites user requests etc
  • (?i)checked.*in - I checked in at…
  • LinkedIn - Linked In
  • (?i)please.*(\bwatch\b|\bfollow\b)|(\bwatch\b|\bfollow\b).*(me|please|back) - Follow me, watch me, follow back, watch me please, follow me please etc
  • ( RT -|LIKE -) - people stil use these instead of proper polls.
  • [email protected] - youtube etc
Irritants
  • #(([D|d]arts\w*)|([A|a]shes\w*))|([B|b]oxing\w*)) — Sports I don’t care for
  • go again - Gerrard said this once, now everyone does. irritating as f*ck
  • (#NW)|(#Now[W|w]atching)|(#NP)|(#Now[P|p]laying) - now playing/watching
Celebs
  • ([B|b]ieber)|([B|b]ieb) — Filter all references to the word Bieber
  • \b([B|b]eckham)\b — Filter all references to the word Beckham
  • ([K|k]atie [H|h]opkins) - Filter all reference to the rent a troll.
  • ([D|d]onald [T|t]rump)|[T|t]rump - Donald Trump’s a c***
Media
  • [D|d]aily [M|m|F|f]ail?|Mail Online|dailym.ai|dailymail.co.uk|[M|m]ail[S|s]port - Daily Mail/Fail
  • #[A|a]sk\w* - Any Ask [celeb]
  • ([X|x] [F|f]actor|[X|x][F|f]actor|#x[F|f]actor) - x factor
  • #[E|e]urovision\w* - Eurovision
  • #FIFA\w* - Fifa (including the game)
  • #GBBO\w* - Great British Bake Off
  • #BakeOff\w* - Great British Bake Off
  • #BAFTA\w* - Bafta
  • #BGT\w* - Britains Got Talent
  • #BBC\w* - BBC hashtag
  • #ImACeleb - z list shithousery
  • #[H|h]omeland - TV show i don’t watch
  • (#[T|t]he[A|a]pprentice)|(#[A|a]pprentice) - Apprentice obvs.
  • #[B|b]allon\w* - Ballon d’or
  • #(Glasto|GLASTO|glasto)\w* - Glastonbury
  • #ssnhq\w* - Sky Sports News Hashtags
  • #[V|v]ote\w* - Vote hashtags
Format
  • ^[A-Z\s\p{P}]*$ - tweets in all caps
  • \n{6,} — Posts with 6+ new lines.
  • (#.*?){6,} — Posts with 6+ hastags.
  • #\w{24,} — Posts that contain long hashtags.
  • (@.*){5} - mute all tweets containing more than 5 @ mentions.
  • ^((#|@)\S+\s*)+$ - Tweets consisting solely of @usernames and #hashtags, separated by whitespace
Accounts
  • [P|p]redict[T|t]he[S|s]ix - some people i follow promote these, but i don’t really care
  • [C|c]helsea[F|f]ansYT - some people i follow promote these, but i don’t really care
  • [B|b]reath[S|s]port - some people i follow write for these but i don’t really care.
  • [B|b]reathe[S|s]port - some people i follow write for these but i don’t really care.
  • [G|g]et[W|w]est[C|c]helsea - some people i follow write for these but i don’t really care.
  • uMAXitFootball - some people i follow write for these but i don’t really care.
Apps (mute clients)
  • SumAll
  • SumAll Authentication
  • Twitter Ads
  • Unfollowers
  • Unfollowers.me
  • Untappd
  • LinkedIn
  • JustUnfollow
  • Foursquare
  • fllwrs
  • Deezer
  • BreatheSport
  • Bloglovin
  • Twibbon
  • Kicca (Syndicate)
  • SnappyTV.com
  • SoundCloud
  • Facebook
  • Crowdfire App

Published 16 October 2017, with 509 words.