I love Twitter but, as with most things, there’s always room for improvement.
If you use Firefox you can use a add-on called Greasemonkey to customize just about any site using scripts. One of the things I like about Greasemonkey scripts is you can install them and try them out without restarting Firefox.
Here are six Greasemonkey scripts I use to enhance Twitter:
Search Twitter Grader Link Adds a link on Twitter profile pages linking to the user’s Twitter Grader profile.
Twitter Grader Link in Action
Retweet This Adds a retweet button to the end of each twitter entry to compliment the reply and favourite buttons. It’s quite easy to edit the script to modify the text that goes at the beginning of your retweet – for example I changed the default “Retweeting @user:” to “RT @user:” to save a few characters.
Seach Replies and Retweet Icons
Search Twitter Replies Link Adds an icon to search @replies for that user Search Twitter. This is helpful to put tweets into context. I’ve also found it a handy way of finding interesting new people to follow.
Endless Tweets This script automatically loads older tweets and adds them to the bottom of the page as you scroll down so you don’t need to keep clicking on the “Older” link each time you reach the bottom of the page.
Twitter Search I have no idea why Twitter don’t put an easy to get to search box on their site, but this script sorts it out by putting a search box in the sidebar.
A Search Box for Twitter
Twitter Sidebar Replies Shows replies to a user is the sidebar of that user’s Twitter page.
Sidebar Replies
Do you use these or any other Greasemonkey scripts for Twitter? Let me know in the comments.
thabk for this post!