Get Rid of Multiple Trending Topic Tweets
Posted July 15th, 2009 by annieAfter reading Mashable’s review of TidyTweet the other day and realizing that getting rid of those spammy trending topic tweets would be nice, I decided to create a Greasemonkey script that does that for you when you’re on search.twitter.com.
The Hide Tweets with Multiple Trending Topics script works for Firefox users with the Greasemonkey add-on who are browsing search.twitter.com (maybe I’ll get it working on twitter.com’s search as well, but I don’t use that as much). It suppresses all tweets that have more than x number of trending topics in them (2 is the default). You can choose to either throw them away or compress them at the bottom of the page:
After installing the script, you can customize the options mentioned above. Go to Tools > Greasemonkey > Manage User Scripts… and then select HideMultipleTrendingTopicTweets and then the Edit button. A .js file will open in your text editor, and you can change the values in the Customize section. I’ve only tried this with Firefox 3.5.
It’s kind of fun to look at Trending Topics over a little while. Lots of times people ask why something is a trending topic, thus perpetuating it as a trending topic. People also try to make a game of getting all the trending topics into a sentence.
Enjoy!
