Filtering tweets in Twitterrific

Are you getting inundated with tweets for a conference you’re not attending or not interested in? Can’t stand retweets? If you use Twitterrific on Mac OS X, there is a little-known way to block tweets from appearing in your list by filtering on their content.

To filter tweets, simply open a Terminal window, and input the following:

defaults write com.iconfactory.Twitterrific tweetTextFilter -string '#someconf'

(substituting what you want to filter on for #someconf inside the single quotes; for example, RT or retweeting). It’s also possible to filter on multiple things at the same time: just separate your different filters with a |.

(Twitterrific actually supports PCRE, but it’s not necessary to know anything about regular expressions to use it.)