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Eight great Userscripts for Twitter users
Grab some Userscripts, and use your browser give your Twiter / Home some handy new features! I've gathered eight of my favorites - feel free to share yours in the comments!
Troy's Twitter Script - provides several additional functions, like short URL expansion, inline media viewing, and nested replies. Also adds a search box (for those of us who can't use the real deal just yet), retweet link, and an @mentions link to see who's been talking about you.
Twitter Friends Name Helper - adds a handy autocomplete ability to the update box. Start typing a friend's name (no @ sign required) and a dropdown appears from which you can choose a name. If only one match is found, Name Helper will instantly insert it.
Twitter Saviour - blocks tweets that contain text you don't want to see. Use it to filter (gasp!) inappropriate cursing or annoying fluff you can do without, like comments about the Jonas Bothers (typo?).
There's also Hashtag Ignore, which you can use to block specific tags. Would be more useful if more people used hashtags.
Display Popular Trends - adds a handy list of the current top ten keywords and hashtags to the Twitter sidebar.
Twitter URL Shortener - some URLS push your update input beyond 140 characters, at which point Twitter won't let you submit. This script takes care of things by automatically squeezing any URL in the box.
Universal Post Bar / AddThis Anywhere - These both provide the same function, adding a small, clickable social sharing menu to every page you visit. Click to open the menu, then click where you want to send it - Twitter, for example. My only gripe was with their lack of URL-shortening kung fu, but the previous script takes care of that anyway.
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Tal Shafik said 1:31PM on 3-13-2009
Nice collection, especially the trends list. Although I'd recommend Power Twitter, which handles most of the others (search box, inline media, etc.)
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Zack said 2:05PM on 3-13-2009
Power Twitter (Firefox extension) is definitely the way to go. It does almost everything userscripts like these will do, and it's constantly being upgraded.
Lee Mathews said 2:06PM on 3-13-2009
Power Twitter is for FF only, and yes, there are people using other browsers - most of which can handle Userscripts.
Just giving some options! ;-)
Jason said 2:05PM on 3-13-2009
For online web twiter users, you should give Tweetizen a try - does most of the above without having to download anything: http://www.tweetizen.com/
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José Santos said 4:32PM on 3-13-2009
Power Twitter also works for Flock.
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Lee Mathews said 4:11PM on 3-13-2009
Sure...it's built on Firefox, after all.
Luke said 11:14AM on 4-15-2009
Wow, I was surprised to see my own script mentioned here. Glad you like it!
Just to let you know, I have released a new version of the Universal Post Bar today, just to add URL-shortening kung fu, as suggested in this article.
Universal Post Bar now shortens all URLs longer than 17 characters using http://is.gd, which gets them down to around 17 characters.
If you have any other suggestions, please let me know!
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