Enhanced Twitter Post Hider
This contains a UI enhancement to Twitter that adds Enhanced Muted Words to the Twitter UI.
It provides much improved and much finer grain control of muted words, with the option for using
regular expressions for filtering.
Installation
This is a userscript that has been designed to run under TamperMonkey. You will first need to have the tampermonkey
plugin installed.
You then go to GreasyFork and choose Install Script:
GreasyFork Script Repo
This will bring up the Tampermonkey script install with the information for the script. Click on
Install to complete the install.
Usage
Once the script is installed and running, go to Twitter as you normally would.
In the bar on the left hand side, click on the More button, just above Post. And then choose Settings and Privacy from
the menu.
Under Settings, choose Privacy and Safety, then in the far right bar choose Muted and Block.
You can now click on Enhanced Muted Words to get to the new features.
Add Blocked Words
Click on Add Row to add a new row for a blocked word. Fill in the phrase you wish to block and set the Regex switch
to either true to use it as a regular expression match or false to use it as an exact match. There are also switches for
Remove Posts and Include Username. These are explained below.
Click Save to save the rows. Your muted phrase will then be active.
Regular Expression Generator
This may be useful to those not familiar with regular expressions.
Regex Switch
The Regex switch can be set to true or false. If you set it to true then the phrase will be treated as a regular
expression and will be used as a pattern to match against posts and optionally usernames.
If this switch is set to false, then the phrase will be used as an exact match only.
Remove Posts Switch
The Remove Posts switch can be set to on or off. If it is set to on then the posts that match the phrase will be
fully removed from the timeline.
If the switch is set to off, then the posts will simply be hidden on the timeline,
and can be viewed at your discretion by clicking on them.
Include Username Switch
The Include Username switch can be set to on or off. If it is set to on, then the username of the post will also be
considered when matching the post. If the username matches then the post will be hidden or removed based on the
Remove Posts switch.
If the switch is set to off, then the username will not be considered.
Remove Blocked Words
Click on Remove Row to remove a blocked word row.
Click Save to save the rows. Your muted phrase will then be removed.
Your Username
Fill in the username to be ignored in the your username field.
This allows the filter not to apply to your own posts.
Click Save to save the username.
For Developers
To build the code use the following commands.
# install dependencies
npm install
# build userscript
npm run compile-prod
To install the code, go to the dashboard for Tampermonkey, and click on the + tab.
Copy the contents of the js file in the dist folder to the editor on the page, and then choose Save.
Close your browser and reopen it and the Enhanced Muted Words userscript will be active.
