New feature!

I've added a new feature that I think might be really helpful. You can now filter the tweets you want to post on your blog (or send by email). I believe it can help reduce the signal/noise ratio that goes into your blog (and to your readers) provided you think about ahead of time.

Fortunately, the process is fairly easy: just add the hashtag #lifetweet (or #lt for short) in your tweets and check the appropriate checkbox in your preferences:

important:

I have also fixed an issue reported by @sk8bette and now @replies behave slightly differently. Indeed since I've implemented that feature twitter changed its API, and it's now very easy to distinguish a real reply from a casual @something. So if you are filtering out the replies from your posts, be sure to use real twitter replies.

tip:

You can also use #life-tweet, #loudtweeter #loudtwitter but it will leave you less space for the rest of your message.

These days, I'm doing more database maintenance which makes loudtwitter a bit late or slow sometimes, sorry about that. You can help me by donating (I do loudtwitter on my free time, thanks!).

Comments

[mollydot.livejournal.com]

Great new feature, thanks.

Couple of small tweeks you might like to do to the edit user page:

With the @reply fix, could re-word "Hide replies (ie: tweets with @someone)" to "Hide replies (ie: tweets starting with @someone)"

When "Only #lifetweet..." is selected, the other two sample tweets don't disappear (BTW, I think that immediate feedback example is a great idea)

[susandennis]

I like the filter option but, what I'd really like is the ability to filter out all tweets that contain the @ sign. Seems much simpler but adding #lt is workable work around. Thanks!

[Xenolith]

Yes... make the hashtag short so it takes up less characters. #lt works for me.

Any chance you will be releasing loudtwitter, so we can run it on our own servers?

[Kesley]

Can you make loudtwitter weekly instead?