Lessnoise

Purpose

Lessnoise is a web extension to filter your Twitter timeline. It also improves parts of Twitter's web UI, it does:

• hide the "Who to follow" box
• hide the trends box
• hide the sidebar footer
• hide promoted tweets
• expand URLs

Requirements

• Firefox

Installation

You can install lessnoise via the Firefox Add-ons site: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lessnoise/.

Configuration

In the preferences you can specify which elements ("Who to follow", trends, and sidebar footer) of Twitter's web UI are shown. By default, all elements are hidden.

Filters

Lessnoise currently provides six ways to filter out unwanted tweets:

• #example filters out all tweets tagged with "example"
• @example filters out all tweets mentioning the user "example"
• example filters out all tweets containing the text "example"
• block @example filters out all tweets from the user "example"
• retweets from @example filters out all retweets from the user "example"
• arabic characters, chinese characters and japanese characters filter out all tweets containing Arabic, Chinese or Japanese characters, respectively

You can add the filters manually via the filter form, or you can select a filter from the Filter menu that's available below each tweet.

Changelog

v0.1.2 (2017-11-30)

• Bugfix: Fixing issue with configuration settings being ignored after page transitions. Thanks to @Osarahashi for reporting.

v0.1.1 (2017-11-28)

• Allowing configuration of which UI elements ("Who to follow", trends, sidebar footer) are visible

v0.1.0 (2017-11-13)

• Turning lessnoise into a web extension
• Removing dependency on Greasemonkey

v0.0.10 (2014-12-20)

• Adding filter to filter out tweets containing Arabic characters
• Dropping support for Chrome

v0.0.9 (2013-01-11)

• Adapting to changes on twitter.com
• Bugfix: Fixing problem with some text filters like '?' or '(example'

v0.0.8 (2013-01-05)

• Adding filter to filter out all tweets of a user
• Adding filter to filter out all retweets of a user
• Adding filter to filter out tweets containing Chinese or Japanese characters

v0.0.7 (2012-12-15)

• Support for Chrome

v0.0.6 (2012-12-06)

• Hiding filter list by default
• Showing the number of new tweets in the title if the window is not focused
• Bugfix: Fixing type error if a tweet contains a "@" followed by a number

v0.0.5 (2012-11-13)

• Showing urls mentioned in tweets in the filter menu
• Cleaning up querystring of expanded urls (i.e. removing params with keys "utm_source", "utm_content", "utm_medium", or "utm_campaign")

v0.0.4 (2012-11-10)

• Ordering filters alphabetically
• Bugfix: Filtering expanded urls

v0.0.3 (2012-10-19)

• Adding filter link to each tweet

v0.0.2 (2012-10-08)

• Adding filter functionality

v0.0.1 (2012-10-03)

• Initial release

Contact

Feel free to contact me via Twitter (@dhofstet) or by email ([email protected]) if you have any questions or feedback.

License

Lessnoise is licensed under the MIT license.