You know what would be great? The ability to strip out @replies from Twitter that get fed into our FF streams with no context or easy links to the original tweet. This works well in the Facebook Twitter app, which strips out anything I tweet starting with '@'.
I agree, @replies do not need to be fed into the FF stream. I would love to see FF fix this. It is rather annoying to see them...
- Randy Shapiro
I like the idea. Would this include retweets or just tweets where @username is first in the tweet?
- Tony, Paradox of FF
Probably just @reply tweets. I'd love to at least see an option to turn them off.
- Thomas
Tony- people retweet several different ways: RT, "retweeting:", or sometimes (via @user), so that might be a little trickier. Losing replies would help a lot, though! In fact, I started @replying a lot more when Twitter stripped them out of others' feeds when both parties were not being followed, since I felt like I was bugging people less. Here, it's still contributing to noise.
- Sarah Lane
It's especially messy if you comment here and elect to also send it as an @reply via the FF option...
- Thomas
How about an option to strip out @ replies UNLESS they are addressed to you?
- George Brickner
What you don't want all 5+ thousand knowing all you business... Hmm go figure... lol Kevin
- Kevin
from email
I like it the way it is. Find lots of people I should be following by following the @ trail.
- Justin Whitaker
As an experiment I tried hiding ALL Twitter traffic on Friendfeed - and I've left it that way. I don't miss it at all. From time to time I'll check what I'm missing (there's a "show hidden entries" link at the bottom of the page) and there's very rarely anything worth noting.
- Leo Laporte
Funny how I find this exact same thing desirable on the Twitter side, but completely agree with you in the context of FF.
- Jered Hofker
Hmm. In the Facebook-Twitter app, doesn't it only block tweets that START with an @reply? I suppose I wouldn't mind if FriendFeed did that, since mostly when I put an @reply in the middle of a tweet it's not really directly addressed to them, or they're retweets or something of the sort. And usually retweets are something I want FriendFeeders to see.
- Gus Cuddy
There is a link to the original tweet, it's just not obvious. On a FF post that came from Twitter, click on the word "Twitter" and you'll find it's a link to the original tweet (the URL has statuses/big_number in it). From there, you can click on "in reply to whoever" to see what the reply was actually to.
- Otto
That is a good idea. Add a way to filter out #FollowFriday and I am a very happy man
- Asgeir
I agree with Leo though. I hid all twitter entries from my stream (unless they have comments or likes), and this definitely cut down the noise. I figure if they had likes or comments on them, then they might contain something of interest.
- Otto
If everyone did that, would any tweets get comments or likes? :) If I can get rid of just the @reply's, I'll be a happy man...
- Thomas
Though there are many versions of the re-tweet, it'd be nice to at least filter out anything starting with RT.
- mark