how to exclude retweets from the streaming api

[jgamedev]

I know there has been a similar question for the REST api.

Seems to be same solution proposed in this stackoverflow answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38208493/twitter-api-exclude-retweets-in-stream

However, like the user who posted the question says in the comments, it doesn't seem to work as I don't receive any tweets after applying it.

I made sure I was using very popular track terms

NOTE: because this is sort of a trivial need, it would be great if the actual solution was added to the Read.ME

[hoodsy]

@jgamedev I was looking for a similar solution, and wrote a simple function to help out. Basically, if the tweet picked up in the stream is anything other than a basic tweet (i.e. a retweet, reply, etc), it returns true.

function isReply(tweet) {
  if ( tweet.retweeted_status
    || tweet.in_reply_to_status_id
    || tweet.in_reply_to_status_id_str
    || tweet.in_reply_to_user_id
    || tweet.in_reply_to_user_id_str
    || tweet.in_reply_to_screen_name )
    return true
}

[a1xon]

So there is still no better solution? twitter is providing no filter for the stream? why? this creates tons of useless traffic and data.

[Fizion101]

I also wish Twitter would allow filtering of the Stream API, specifically for exclude re-tweets and replies... at least re-tweets. If I am trying to do a live feed of CNN or god forbid Justin Bieber / anyone with millions of followers my server gets bombarded with 20-100 retweets per second... You can filter out in the search API, so I don't understand why it's not a trivial matter to include it in Stream API as well. It seems to be a common request and would lower overhead considerably.

[Anatoly03]

So there is still no better solution? twitter is providing no filter for the stream? why? this creates tons of useless traffic and data.

Checking by 4 years later, is it known if there's a better way to filter tweets or is this solution still the only up-to-date?