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"Hide Retweets"/"filter:follows -filter:replies" mode?

Open aubade opened this issue 5 years ago • 3 comments

Does twitter's API permit a version of the home timeline with all the retweets filtered out? Similar to when you use a twitter search for "filter:follows -filter:replies".

aubade avatar Jul 18 '20 22:07 aubade

So, hiding all retweets and/or replies? Not just hiding them for one person?

Even if Twitter doesn't have that option then we've got enough data in the tweets to be able to implement something.

IBBoard avatar Jul 19 '20 18:07 IBBoard

Yes, exactly. Like, a toggleable option.

I do the search thing sometimes on the website when i want a quieter timeline and it'd be nice to have it in a desktop app too.

aubade avatar Jul 19 '20 18:07 aubade

I've just checked the search in Cawbird and it doesn't work. I suspect "filter:follows" isn't supported in the search API or something.

But like I said, we can still do something bespoke with the timeline.

IBBoard avatar Dec 27 '20 19:12 IBBoard