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

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?://[^ ]+$
@soundsgoodtome
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Thanks for these. However, there's still a format I can't find anywhere:

Say I follow @Superman, and he constantly talks about kryptonite. I don't want to mute all mentions of the word "kryptonite," just his mentions of it.

Would I simply mute:

@Superman+kryptonite

(?) Or is the syntax different? Thanks in advance.

@willeccles
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For the 3 hashtags one, I would have said (#[^# ]+[ ]*.*){3} 😄
Yours will not catch the 3rd hashtag completely, in a tweet such as "#magic is #cool and I also like the # sign." The third # is not a hashtag, but it still is counted as one.

@realrolfje
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realrolfje commented Nov 12, 2017

In recent developments, I would add:

Mute tweets longer than 140 characters: [^]{140}

See https://twitter.com/rolfje/status/929643146002255872

Apparently that does not work correctly, and .{140} means I loose all 140 char tweets with expanded links in them. I think this requires more work.

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