Hipster Twitter

Some Chrome extensions for twitter.com

Features

• When clicking on "23 new tweets" the window will scroll to the first new tweet.
• Switches @screenname with Full Name where applicable for better user identification. Before and after:
• Replaces ragefac.es-links by their thumb inline. Before and after:
• Unshortens any shortened URLs. Before and after:

Any feature can be disabled in the extension's options.

Installation and Upgrading

• cd into the extension's root and run make.
• If make cannot find google-chrome put the Chrome executable into your $PATH.
• Point your browser to packed/twitter-com-extensions.crx inside the extension's root.

Strategy

To be able to change the contents of tweets, the extension looks every two seconds whether new tweets arrived at the DOM and then operates on them. For the worst case it may happen, that tweets appear standard for the first two seconds until they change. We are looking into measures to intercept events like Ajax Requests to better respond to changes. We are glad about every good advice!