Seesmic Web Now Lets You Filter (Foursquare)

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I’ve dabbled in various desktop Twitter clients but, when not mobile, I still prefer Twitter in a browser tab. (The browser is the OS?) The last few months, I’ve been mostly satisfied with Seesmic Web‘s presentation over Brizzly and Twitter.com. It’s a bit slower than I’d like and the promised Facebook integration has yet to arrive, but Seesmic Web provides a clean and powerful UI look into the Twitterverse. And last week Seesmic upped the ante with a pretty significant update, which includes:

  • A new Settings feature for easy integration management: Ping.fm and FourSquare
  • Contact Notes and display of the verified accounts icon
  • Transliteration – Send characters in different languages
  • Filter timeline for keywords
  • New Column Gear Menu
  • Reauthorize and own deletion of Seesmic Web accounts
  • Improvements in Design of Seesmic Web’s Sidebar

For me, the new filters are priceless. While I try to engage with as many folks as I reasonably can (following 900+ at the moment), I’m obviously not “real life friends” with most. So, to keep up such a high count, anything I can do to filter the day-to-day noise is a benefit. And lately Fourquare checkins have been getting out of hand. Make that were getting out of hand. Since resolved with Seesmic’s new filters. I just wish I had this functionality during the 2008 presidential campaign and Spymaster’s peak.

5 thoughts on “Seesmic Web Now Lets You Filter (Foursquare)”

  1. It’s good etiquette to include a hashtag for local event tweets, so those in your social graph who don’t live nearby can add a filter, like the one Dave describes above.

    You should use that same local hashtag when checking in using Gowalla and Foursquare as well. Example:

    “Just arrived at the party wif a ton of beer!!! #Austin”

    An “#Austin” filter will prevent you from unfollowing me because of so-called noisy tweets and check-ins that are too hyper local.

  2. But I keep hearing how cool Austin is. In fact, I think we TiVo-ed an Austin House Hunters a few days ago. Plus, a work buddy had a fabulous trip down there recently. So #Austin gets to stay. But some of these ‘retweet to win’ account names like DealsPlus need to be filtered out.

  4. Without multiple account support, Seesmic is out for me. I’m really liking the Foursquare features and global filters in the new Tweetdeck update. It can automatically filter Foursquare tweets out of your main timeline and into the location column where you can ignore them at will.

  5. This seems like a useful tool. I’m glad I stumbled upon this post or would have never known about Seesmic.

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