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Better Mobile Twitter

By angus Last update May 1, 2009 — Installed 622 times.


Script Summary: Mobile version of twitter is faster and cleaner. This script is to enhance the user experience in mobile version. Features includes auto-next-page, automatically display direct messages and replies, image preview, auto-expand shorten URL

Version: 6

Script homepage

Latest Notable Changes

  • 1-May: Fix the 404 problem
  • Fix Twitpic image preview problem
  • Remove @mentions as Twitter's replies already include @mentions

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Features

See the action in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAL4E23EqT0&fmt=18

Installation

Firefox users can just install the script and point your Firefox to http://m.twitter.com/home

Support Google Chrome. Chrome users please read this document to enable user scripts.

Change History

Version 6 (beta)
  • View other's tweets inline (no page refresh)
  • Show link of direct messages, replies to can see full page
  • Direct message side bar can collapse after expand
  • Add the switch to standard version button to page top
  • ExpandUrl supports burnurl.com, snurl.com, bitly.com
  • ExpandUrl image supports skitch.com, phodroid.com
  • ExpandUrl matches url better for tinyurl
  • ExpandUrl fix the hellotxt and twitpic image layout changed
  • Provide limited support of ExpandUrl in Chrome (those doesn't need cross site AJAX)
  • @include more URLs instead of only http://m.twitter.com/home
Version 5 (17-Mar-2009)
  • Add direct messages sidebar
  • Add replies sidebar
  • Add reply button for tweets
  • Detect if cannot load the page and quit the script
  • ExpandUrl supports tr.im, short.to, twurl.nl
  • ExpandUrl supports url with ellipse
  • ExpandUrl matches url better for ff.im, youtube and hellotxt
  • ExpandUrl image supports ping.fm and hellotxt
  • ExpandUrl will directly show the continue url if need to login google account
  • ExpandUrl will add spaces in really long url to make sure it will wrap
  • Add a clear TwitPic cache button
  • Fix the bug that exception raised when url stored in sessionStorage is empty string
Version 4 (20-Feb-2009)
  • Auto expand short URL
  • Image and Youtube preview
  • Filter by user
  • Show new tweets count in window title
  • Fine tune the checking of invalid char
Version 3 (18-Nov-2008)
  • Add the character count function
  • Check for new tweets on background
  • Add an on-off button
  • Make the input box wider
  • Show error message if AJAX call fails
  • Change to a OO approach
Version 2 (6-Nov-2008)
  • Support Chrome
Version 1 (13-Oct-2008)
  • First release to userscripts.org