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Im using twitter_timeline to show tweets from my twitter account on my site. The problem is that I reply to a lot of other people’s tweets but I dont want these to be shown. How can I filter out tweets that are replies to other tweets?

To clarify, I need tweets that start with @SomeUserName to be removed, but messages that mention users should be shown if they dont start with the username.

Thanks

I’m not familiar with this particular method. However “Tweet Line” on Devotee has this functionality and is very easy to integrate. That may be worth looking into.

Ive updated my question. That module can remove all tweets with mentions of others users, but not just tweets that start with the mention. This is a standard way of replying more privately in twitter and this is the functionality I need. Thanks

You could use PHP for this.

if(substring("{tweet}",0,1) != '@')
 {
  // The tweet does not begin with @, probably not a reply so display it
  echo '{tweet}';
 }

Does this mean I need to import a set number of tweets and then filter out the ones that start with ‘@’? The issue with this is that even if I set the number to something like 100 there is always the possibility that all of them will start with an ‘@’ and no tweets will be shown. Thanks

Hello James,

Thank you for posting your question on the ExpressionEngine forums.

Thanks to Andrew as well for assisting.

I searched high and low for a plugin that would do what you are trying to accomplish and I could not find one, but I did find someone who had the same desire you do. Remove tweets that start with @ because those are replies to conversations you want left out, but do not remove all the posts that use @ because you might be mentioning someone or they might be mentioning you.

Take a look at this post, he takes you through what he did to accomplish this in a step by step fashion. I have not tried it but thought I would pass on the information.

Does this seem like something you would like to try?

Cheers!

Thanks for that link, I think it will work.

Hello James,

I am glad I could help. Thanks again for using the ExpressionEngine forums!

Cheers!