Ignore/remove direct tweets: Twitter Tools Feature code

Alex King,

I use Twitter and thus Twitter Tools to create Aside posts. I do not like these Asides to include direct tweets (prefaced with ‘@’). The following code removes all Tweets that begin with ‘@’. I have my code addition hard-coded, but this would be a great option to include within the Plugins Options page and wanted to share this option with the WordPress Plugin community.

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if(substr($data["post_content"], 0, 1) != '@') {
			$post_id = wp_insert_post($data);
			add_post_meta($post_id, 'aktt_twitter_id', $tweet->tw_id, true);
		}

Now my only Asides posts (tweets) are non-direct tweets (which makes much more sense to me then listing half conversations that people can’t follow by reading your website).