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Too many people are retweeting to the point that I get sick of reading the same stuff again and again.

How can I filter out retweets?

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  • What app/interface are you using? Tweetdeck supports this, but AFAIK, the standard Twitter site does not.
    – phantom42
    Jan 24, 2014 at 14:13

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You can do this in advanced search. Search for something in the search tool bar and click on the more options tab on the result page and then choose advanced search. Enter the Twitter account into the "from account" field and make sure the "include retweet" check box at the bottom is unchecked. Search and then it returns all tweets from the account without any retweets included.

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    The "include retweet" checkbox currently does not exist (anymore?), so this solution doesn't work.
    – jxd
    Mar 15, 2021 at 19:56
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    Correction: the checkbox is missing because using advanced search by username now seems to exclude retweets by default.
    – jxd
    Mar 15, 2021 at 20:06
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I know this is an old question but the solution is to use the exclude:retweets filter.

If you want to see tweets with #sugar but no retweets you search for:

#sugar exclude:retweets
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  • Hi @Christoffer, great answer, and welcome to Web Applications. I added some formatting to your answer to make it easier to read.
    – Vidar S. Ramdal
    Feb 6, 2017 at 11:44
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    Hey @Christoffer, this isn't valid anymore. Please have a look at my answer.
    – plattenschieber
    Oct 12, 2020 at 16:24
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There is no way to filter from the web UI all retweets.

What you will need to do is go to each profile you follow, then:

  1. Click the gear icon
  2. Select Turn off Retweets

Do this for every user you follow that you do not want to see what they retweet.

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  • That didn't work for me. I found the gear icon on their profile, and turned off retweets, but I still see retweets, even after refreshing the user's profile page. It's maddening that I can't just focus on their occasional actual tweets.
    – nealmcb
    Aug 29, 2014 at 20:12
  • This setting doesn't affect their profile page AFAIK, just timelines.
    – James Thomas
    Sep 22, 2014 at 14:42
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There is an upgrade in twitters API: You'll need to use -is:retweet to remove all retweets. The parameter exclude is not supported anymore.

From https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/tweets/search/integrate/build-a-rule

Prepend a dash to a keyword (or any operator) to negate it (NOT). [...] One common query clause is -is:retweet, which will not match on Retweets, thus matching only on original Tweets.

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  • thank you for this answer
    – Some_Guy
    Oct 11, 2020 at 4:53
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I always just use the advanced search filters for tweets from the user which excludes all retweets. Type into the Twitter search bar:

from:[username]

and sort by Latest. If you want to exclude replies also, search:

from:[username] -filter:replies

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use https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/ and then add a filter to exclude retweets

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