What Tools Are You Using To Upgrade Your Twitter Experience? Greasemonkey Edition
If you’ve been looking for a new way to enhance your Twitter web experience, we have the perfect tool for you today! We’re talking about Greasemonkey, a popular Firefox add-on that allows the use of small bits of Javascript to customize a webpage. Thanks to Greasemonkey, my Twitter experience from the web looks more like this:
Corvida's Twitter Homepage (Click to Enlarge)
We’ve had numerous questions about how to enhance the web experience of Twitter. Little gold nuggets such as Greasemonkey scripts can sometimes go by largely unoticed. However, if you’re a Firefox user Greasemonkey scripts are one of the best ways to enhance your experience.
So what are some of the awesomesauce scripts that we’re using?
- Twitter User Classify Script – Ranks Twitter users from Twittercaster to Twitter spammer
- Twitter Search Results in Google Script – Searches Twitter for keyword related Tweets and displays them on the Google search results page
- Twitter Enhancements: ReTweet This – Adds a “retweet” button to your Twitter homepage
- Twitter Display Popular Trends – Places Twitter Trends on your Twitter homepage
- Twitpic Thumbnailer – Displays an inline thumbnail of images for tweets containing Twitpic images
- Twitter Sidebar Replies – Shows replies to the Twitter profiles you visit in the Twitter homepage sidebar
- Twitter Show Followers - Places a small icon over the avatars of your Twitter followers
- Troy’s Twitter Script – Displays nested replies, custom search tabs, autocomplete of @ usernames, pagination, a ReTweet button, Media Embedding, URL expansion, and tons more!
Greasemonkey scripts are really easy to install and don’t require a restart of Firefox everytime you install one. You can turn them on or off with just one click. You can also find a lot more to play around with at Userscripts.org. Go ahead and give a few of them a try and let us know how well they work for you.
- What other ways are you enhancing your Twitter web experience?
- What Greasemonkey Scripts are you using?
- Did you choose any from our list? Which ones caught your attention?
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