Separate tab for specific tweeters

[bryen]

Enhancement Request:

There are some tweeters that are actually automated and send out reports frequently and periodically. They're useful "news feeds" but drown out regular tweeters in the Messages tab. I'd like to see a new feature that allows me to designate that a specific tweeter is never shown in Messages tab but get their own unique tab.

[Dominic Evans (oldmanuk)]

You can already achieve this for Twitter by opening a search tab (Gwibber->Search or CTRL+F) and putting in the search term 'from:username'

If you want any more than that, please re-open :)

[bryen (suserocks)]

Dominic, Either I wasn't clear enough in my description or you read it too quickly. :-)

I'm already familiar with the search function. What I am looking for is a way to *separate* out certain tweeters that I follow into their own unique tab. Tweeters that send out status-like messages at a high rate drown out the main messages tab and make it impossible to see regular tweeters.

So, I would like those tweeters to have their own designated tab and filtered out of the regular messages tab. Otherwise, its nearly impossible sometimes to see others that I follow.

P.S. I can't find the option to re-open. If you can do that for me, much appreciated. It should be an enhancement request.

[Juan J. Martínez (jjmartinez)]

Seems obvious, but if you don't want to read someone's updates, unfollow him/her :)

[Andrew Conkling (andrewski)]

bryen, Juan makes a good point, but there's a missing piece that allows you to do what you want: if you unfollow someone you could open a separate tab and search for "from:username", effectively separating those updates from your Messages.

I do think you'd get better mileage out of an RSS reader for those types of updates though. (And if the user doesn't have an RSS feed driving that Twitter account, shame on them.) :)

Caveat: if you do that, you won't be able to read their updates through another Twitter client, so this would probably only work if Gwibber is your primary/only client. (Thus, I'm changing the status to New instead of to Invalid.[1])

Hope this helps!

[1] (Juan, not sure if you're a developer and/or if your comment was indicating a rejection of this request. Assuming not; pardon if I'm mistaken. :)

[J. Austin Rodriguez (jeanaustinr)]

This is like giving Gwibber the "filter" function just like in Gmail. Am I right?
I hope I get bryen's point.

[J. Austin Rodriguez (jeanaustinr)]

So should this be set as Wishlist?

[J. Austin Rodriguez (jeanaustinr)]

Haven't seen any updates on this for a while. Anyone?

[sheilaellen (k-launchpad-bluegumtree-com)]

There are users whose updates I wish to see, so I follow them, but they're so prolific that they drown out other less prolific users who I also wish to keep up-to-date with. Another use case is for users who I wish to separate out in order to reduce the risk of missing tweets from them. I currently use a feed reader for the latter but would prefer to do it in real time, in my normal SM client with all the options for interaction that that client is optimised to provide.

Ideally, I would like to be able to separate out my incoming stream into channels, comprised of either a single user, as originally suggested here, or groups of users. And also to be able to view more than one channel at a time.