Better Mobile Twitter

By angus — Last update May 1, 2009 — Installed 458 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

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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

Automatically load next page when scrolling to bottom of the page (continues browsing similar to Google Reader)
Display replies and direct messages in sidebar
View other's tweets inline (no page refresh) (new in Version 6)
Images and Youtube thumbnail preview (Major for Firefox, Chrome provide limited function) (enhanced in Version 6)

TwitPic http://twitpic.com/ (enhanced in Version 6)
flickr http://flickr.com/
YouTube http://youtube.com/
hellotxt http://hellotxt.com/ (enhanced in Version 6)
Ping.fm http://ping.fm/
Skitch http://skitich.com (new in Version 6)
Twidroid http://phodroid.com (new in Version 6)
TwinkleShots http://twinkle.tapulous.com/

Auto expand short URL (Major for Firefox, Chrome provide limited function) (enhanced in Version 6)

Tinyurl http://tinyurl.com/ (enhanced in Version 6)
BurnURL http://burnurl.com/ (new in Version 6)
bit.ly http://bit.ly/ (enhanced in Version 6)
Friendfeed http://ff.im/
hellotxt http://hellotxt.com/
is.gd http://is.gd/
Ping.fm http://ping.fm/
short.to http://short.to/
SnipURL http://snipurl.com/ (enhanced in Version 6)
tr.im http://tr.im/
Tweetburner http://tweetburner.com/
URL with ellipse (e.g. http://angusdev.blogspot.com/better...)

Add reply button like standard version
Count the characters remaining as you typing
Check for new tweets in background and display number of new tweets in title bar
Wider input box
Filter by user
Add the switch to standard version button to page top (new in Version 6)
An on/off button so you can turn off the auto-next-page function to access the links in the bottom of the page

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