Mute

Feature requests:

• • programmable muting

    • mute a list of people for the duration of a live TV event, like the people who talk about baseball, starting at pre-determined times

      • MLB schedules are available in advance, so you could mute Blue Jays fans from game start until about 3 hours later

    • sentiment detection: mute this person while they're in a certain mood

      • mute all people with a certain mood

      • IBM tutorial on building sentiment analysis using tweets as the content: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/wa-nodejs-app/index.html

    • take whatever happens to be trending, and mute that

      • https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/trends/place with the parameter of 1 gets worldwide trends

    • topic muting: figure out what a person is talking about (baseball, for example) based on keywords from the tweet, and mute their tweets about that topic

      • is there an API for content analysis when the content is that short?

  • https://twitter.com/fakepop/status/345615079473037312

    • Tweetbot-style app muting (they just look at the app name in the tweet object)

    • image detection

      • image matching (say, the Darth Vader selfie)

      • image detection (image contains Darth Vader)

  • shorter durations than 1 day

    • sometimes someone is on a tweetstorm, and muting for an hour will be just fine

    • Tweetbot uses an expiry time internally for non-forever muting, and displays a duration

  • keywords or hashtags by an individual person

    • from:sillygwailo drupal

  • all tweets that contain a hashtag (any hashtag) but only by a person

    • from:sillygwailo -#

  • mute a specific tweet that is getting RTed a lot.

  • apply mute filters to quoted tweets.

  • Quiet Time is a great start, and it's open source, and uses Twitter's native muting.