diff --git a/twoot.py b/twoot.py
index 6afc449..5492aef 100755
--- a/twoot.py
+++ b/twoot.py
@@ -164,6 +164,24 @@ def build_config(args):
         exit(-1)
 
 
+"""
+Verifies that the item is a tweet from the Twitter account and not an reply from
+somebody else
+:param item: BeautifulSoup representation of the timeline-item
+:return: True if the item is from the Twitter account, false otherwise
+"""
+def item_is_own_tweet(item):
+    # <a> with class username that has an ancestor of class tweet-header which has a
+    # parent of class tweet-body
+    username_tag = item.select_one(".tweet-body > .tweet-header .username")
+    print("tweet username_tag: ", str(username_tag))
+    if username_tag is not None:
+        username = username_tag.get('title').lstrip('@')
+        print(username)
+        if (username == TOML['config']['twitter_account']):
+            return True
+    return False
+
 """
 Dowload page with full thread of tweets and extract all replied to tweet reference by url.
 Only used by `get_timeline()`.
@@ -175,7 +193,8 @@ Only used by `get_timeline()`.
 """
 def _get_rest_of_thread(session, headers, nitter_url, thread_url, first_item):
     # Add first item to timeline
-    timeline = [(None, first_item)]
+    if first_item is not None:
+        timeline = [(None, first_item)]
 
     logging.debug("Downloading tweets in thread from separate page")
     # Download page with thread
@@ -288,10 +307,13 @@ def get_timeline(nitter_url):
     for item in list:
         classes = item['class']
         if 'timeline-item' in classes:  # Individual tweet
-            timeline.append((None, item))
+            if item_is_own_tweet(item):
+                timeline.append((None, item))
         elif 'thread-line' in classes:  # First tweet of a thread
             # Get the first item of thread
             first_item = item.find('div', class_='timeline-item')
+            if not item_is_own_tweet(first_item):
+                first_item = None
 
             # Get the url of the tweet
             thread_link_tag = item.find('a', class_='tweet-link')
@@ -979,7 +1001,7 @@ def main(argv):
         if tweet_link_tag is None:
             logging.debug("Malformed timeline item (no tweet link), skipping")
             continue
-        
+
         tweet_id = tweet_link_tag.get('href').strip('#m')
         status_id = tweet_id.split('/')[3]