Twitter Enhancements: Retweet This
— Last update May 21, 2009 — Installed 5,729 times.|
Script Summary:
Append a retweet button to the end of each twitter entry. |
this script has 1 topic, 4 posts |
this script has 4 reviews |
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This script allows users to customize the retweet message based on template (ie., the gblRetweetTemplate variable). Two special placeholder are supported now: %a for author id, and %c for the original twitter message.
Here is a screenshot:
The default locale is English. Please change the value of variable locale or directly the values of variable gblRetweetTemplate/gblRetweetButtonTitle, if you want a different language or tweet template. The default Chinese template is: '[转] @%a: %c', while the default English one is: 'RT @%a: %c'.
For some reason, twitter update API without authorization header always gets rejected ('unauthorized' error is returned). To make the script to work, twitter username/password needs to be entered and stored in GM registry (upon the first use or when Alt-/ is pressed). Such information will be removed from GM registry upon the script uninstall. Please don't install this script if you don't like this.
Two locales are provided now: English & Chinese. Feel free to customize those labels/messages based on your locale (in the CONFIGURATION AREA of the source), or simply comment out the non-used locale variable definition.
Update (05/21/09): Fix the script due to the single-tweet-page change.
Update (04/30/09): The script is broken by the new change to Twitter home page which now always redirects the pagination URL to http://twitter.com. Fix the script by using a workaround to construct the retweet message properly.
Update (04/23/09): Fix the incomplete-URL bug when the retweet contains long URLs.
Update (04/22/09): Fix the script to make it working for those who still stuck to the old twitter layout. Thanks to @WikiLeon for bringing up the issue.
Update (04/20/09): Mark it Chrome-compatible.
Update (04/07/09): Minor bug fixes.
Update (04/01/09): Minor changes to make the script working with the new Twitter web pages.
Update (02/27/09): Retweeting using the current session if possible. Thanks to chaux, Tobi_as and booticon for the suggestion.
Update (02/27/09): Replace the "Retweeting" with the now-standard "RT" in the retweet message, to save the tweet length. Thanks to booticon for the review.
Update (01/14/09): Don't change the page number when retweeting on twitter home or replies pages.
Update (10/17/08): Script broken likely by twitter's CEO change. Fixed now.
Update (09/18/08): Cover the https twitter pages.
Update (09/18/08): Fix the script to work with twitter's new layout
Update (07/22/08): Split the script into three: RetweetThis, MarkReadItems, and EnterToSend.
Update (05/20/08): Some bug fixes.
Update (05/09/08): No sensitive information like username/password will be stored by the script any more. This should be a relief for the users.
Update (05/09/08): As a bonus, I add a simple feature which would display all tweets, which have already been read, using a customizable background color (via gblBackgroundColorForReadItems).
Update (05/09/08): Make the retweet button visible only when the mouse hovers above the entry to retweet.
Contact: http://twitter.com/ziru
