TwitterToday I was asked by Ravish (our developer) about some twitter clients which let you filter the tweets of certain users so that you can only concentrate on the ones that matter to you. I have been using Tweetdeck for quite some time and I suggested it for its ability to create groups. The biggest disappointment with Tweetdeck however is that it is a system hog and there are occasions when it consumes as much RAM as Mozilla Firefox. I’d suggest that people who own machines short on RAM shouldn’t even fancy the idea of using Tweetdeck if you really love your computer.

The problem however was to find a client which lets you filter the tweets that you don’t consider useful. This is actually a very common situation when you are following many people but want to follow the updates of certain few. I tried some of the clients apart from Tweetdeck and managed to find three web clients which let you do precisely what we wanted.


Filttr does what it says and it is pretty good at it. I like the fact that it uses high grade encryption and that is a high point considering the recent manipulations regarding the twitter user information. You can filter the updates of your twitter friends who make too much noise and leave the useful rest.

twitTangle was the second such web client I found. It claims to untangle the mess of having too many friends on twitter. With twitTangle you can create custom groups of your followers and filter you timeline by that group.

Twalala is the third twitter web client I managed to extract from one of my peers who hate the fact that I have more twitter followers than him. This twitter web client also filters down the updates of users you dont want.