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Tweetbot can use regular expressions to mute tweets in your timeline and mentions.

##Simply annoying Tweets

Annoyingly extended words (4+ of the same letter in a phrase): OOOOHHHHMMMMYYYYGGGGOOOODDDD

([a-z])/1{4}

Tweet w/ just a single hashtag: #omgthissucks

^ *#[^ ]+$

Not a regex, but self retweets: In case you missed it I pooped this morning :)

In case you missed it

##App Location Updates

(updated for multiple words in Location name) Path app location updates: (at Location) - path.com/foo

\(at [a-zA-z0-9_ ]*\) — http://[^ ]+$

Foursquare app location updates: w/ @twittername 4sq.com/foo

w/ @[^@]+ http://[^ ]+$

More Foursquare app location updates: w/ 8 others 4sq.com/foo

w/ [0-9]+ others http://[^ ]+$

Yet more Foursquare app location updates (seriously...): (@ Location w/ 4 others) 4sq.com/foo

\(@ [a-zA-Z0-9_/ ] w/ [0-9]+ others*\) http://[^ ]+$

Hashtag abuse

Three or more hashtags.

#[^#]+#[^#]+#

Long hashtags (15+ characters): #hashtagpunchline

#[^ ]{15}

CamelCase hashtags (3+ Words): #NotSelfAware

#[^a-z ]+[^A-Z ]+[^a-z ]+[^A-Z ]+[^a-z ]+[^ ]*

Painful to read

Unforgivable word shortening: I'm near ur place r u busy?

\sur\s
\sr\s
\su\s

Mass conversations (4+ Mentions): @guy @dude @otherguy @man totally.

@[^@]+@[^@]+@[^@]+@

Retweet chains (2+ RTs): OMG RT @teengirlsquad RT @beebz I'm thinking of you.

RT[^RT]+RT

Mentions with only a URL (spam): @imathis tinyurl.com/spam

^@imathis *https?://[^ ]+$
@valpackett
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you can mute the foursquare client, no need to use regexps for foursquare

@Akku
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Akku commented Oct 21, 2012

Indeed, muting clients is awesome, just put all the crappy update stuff on the mute list and enjoy only real people. But still a nice list.

@jimmynotjim
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@myfreeweb yeah, I realized that after I wrote these. I hadn't used any of the Tweetbot mutting options before reading @imathis originals. Also, I'm bad at checking comments :)

@mbbroberg
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Is this muting supposed to be usable in the Tweetbot for Mac product? I haven't found a way to get it to work. I'd love your help -- these are great regex.

@jondueck
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jondueck commented Sep 2, 2014

Is there a way to mute specific things (in my case any instagram links) from one specific user?

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