Tweetbot is one of the best Twitter clients out there, thanks to its great looking interface and its awesome set of features like tweet streaming, push notifications, muting, gestures and more.
In this post, we show you a few tips to make the most out of Tweetbot’s features.
Mute check-ins, now playing and workout tweets
A lot of people auto-tweet their check-ins, now playing songs or their workout information. While a few such tweets a day can be interesting, a barrage of such auto-posted tweets everyday can become quite annoying. Thankfully, most such tweets are posted by known apps like Foursquare, Runkeeper, Soundtracking etc. and Tweetbot has a very handy option of muting tweets from certain clients.
So whenever you find such a tweet on your Timeline, go into the detail view by swiping from right to left and long tap on the “via” text at the bottom right of the screen. You should see now see an option to mute the client from which the tweet was sent.
Mute hashtags
Annoying hashtags on your timeline? You can mute such tweets by simply long tapping the hashtag and selecting “Mute.”
Notification Sleep
iOS has an option to automatically schedule Do not disturb, but if you want to selectively disable Tweetbot notifications for a certain period of time independent of system settings, you can use Tweetbot’s internal “Sleep Options” that let you switch off notifications for sometime. You can enable this by hitting the top right button > Accounts & Settings > Settings > Account Settings > Notifications > Sleep Options.
Regex mute filters
Most of the times you can get away by including certain words in your mute filters, but there are occasions when you would want to mute a certain pattern which can’t be captured using normal word filtering. Tweetbot supports the use of regular expressions when creating mute filters, so, for example, you can mute all tweets that contain a hashtag larger than 15 characters, or tweets that contain more than four @usernames. To create a new mute filter go to the mute filters tab > “Edit” > “+” > Mute Keyword and enter the new filter. As you type, you should see the “Regular Expression” option, enable it and hit “Save.” You can optionally set a duration for these filters, which defaults to forever.
Here are some useful regex filters:
- Mute tweets with hashtags greater than 15 characters:
#[^ |$]{15} - Mute tweets with more than 4 @usernames:
(@\w+,? ){4,}
For more Tweetbot regex filters, read through this GitHub link.
Share Mute Filters
Tweetbot also lets you share mute filters you’ve already created. Go to the Mute Filters tab, long tap any mute filter and you should see an option saying “Tweet filter.” On tapping that, you should see a compose window with a link, copy that link and send it to your friends. When your friends open the link on their iOS device, it’ll redirect to the app and show them the mute filter.
iCloud Sync
If you use Tweetbot on your iPhone, iPad and Mac, the app’s iCloud syncing can be very useful, and is one of my favorite features. It syncs your read position, DM read status and mute filters across all Tweetbot instances. To enable iCloud sync, navigate to Tweetbot’s Settings > Account Settings > Sync and select iCloud.
Quickly going back
It’s easy to navigate deep into Tweetbot’s app, after which you’ll have to keep tapping back a lot of times to return to your timeline. But Tweetbot lets you quickly get back to your timeline by long tapping the back button.
Retweet from any account
If you use multiple Twitter accounts, tap and hold on the retweet button to get an option to retweet from any account. This should save you the effort of switching accounts to retweet. Thanks Annie for the tip!
These are some of the tips to make the most of the Tweetbot on your iOS device or Mac. Let me know if I have missed any tip.
Download links:
➤ Tweetbot for Twitter (iPhone and iPod touch) – $2.99
➤ Tweetbot for Twitter (iPad Edition) – $2.99
➤ Tweetbot for Twitter (Mac) – $19.99
