A Twitter client that can filter out tweets that have a link

This would be on my wishlist. Sometimes checking my TweetDeck, I like to see not only what my favorite friends from specific lists (properly organized with a specific column) are talking about, but I want to connect to all of those who I follow.

And, as much as possible, I follow everyone back, except when I see that this can be a robot or someone who is really doing something I am not much interested in. For example, I have not been following anything on politics, sports, religion, cars and general news.

Recently I am considering also to add to my list of things I do not follow the “how to make money online”. Although I do follow (off-Twitter) what Susan Bratton, Eben Pagan, Frank Kern, Jeff Walker and other intelligent people are doing, the simple fact of tweeting about digital marketing attracts followers who, if followed back, have made my “All Friends” column impossible to read.

One of the reasons is that this column is full of SPAM! And I call spam the tweets that are just about a headline of a blog post (of a place they own) and a om.ly, su.pr or bit.ly link.

Hello people.

I understand you need to sell your fish. And that tweeting about your blog content is part of the strategy. But if you are really doing a good work, you do not need to be pushing your RSS to the world on Twitter.

When I think of a great author like Seth Godin, I may think of following him if he has something to say on Twitter. But he does not. Seth has made very clear back in 2008 that Twitter is not his thing. And as the cost of automating was low, he uses it basically as an RSS – http://twitter.com/ThisIsSethsBlog

Now. I am a devoted fan of Seth. I read his books, watch his TED presentations and get the daily article on my RSS feed.

Why the hell should I follow Seth on Twitter?

I do not.

Seth has nothing to say on Twitter. He does not add any value, and that was his choice.

The current Seth profile on Twitter can make sense if you want an easy way to RT his content or if you use Twitter instead of an RSS.

My wild guess is that those who started to follow me (triggering me to follow them back) is that they have the following rationale (they may even call it a strategy):

1. search for people tweeting about digital marketing

2. follow them (if possible, automate/outsource)

3. hope they will follow you back

4. SPAM (automatically RSS your content on Twitter)

5. hope that those who followed you back will read your stuff, and click on the links

A feature on a Twitter client that would ONLY show me the tweets without any pitch (i.e. links) would help me a lot in engaging “the conversation”.

Any recommendation?