Temporarily Suppress a Users Tweets

Recently I've noticed a problem with my twitter stream. It is full of people whose tweets I enjoy, but who tweet so much other users are being pushed below the fold too quickly. I don't want to unfollow these users so I wrote a bit of jquery that takes in a username and removes any tweets by them from your home stream.

A few things to note

• A simple refresh brings them back.
• Add multiple users to the suppress list by running the bookmarklet multiple times
• Tweets are removed every five seconds so, sometimes, a suppressed user's tweets will show up. Don't worry, we will suppress them shortly.

Usage

Copy the code below and paste into your browsers console.

Code

if(typeof who == "undefined" || !(who instanceof Array)){
 who = [];
}

var name = prompt("Whose tweets do you want to temporarily remove?\nRefreshing will bring them back.", "@");

who[who.length] = name;

var remove = function(){

var items = $(".content .username");
var i = items.each(function(i,e){
  var name = $(e).text();
  if(who.indexOf(name)!=-1){
    $(e).closest('li').remove();
  }
});

setTimeout(remove , 5000);
}

setTimeout(remove , 1);