A meta Tweet

Check this tweet by Chris Johnson: it’s a tweet with a link whose preview image shows the actual number of retweets and likes for said tweet. A meta tweet.https://t.co/lvaYUszJaE — Chris Johnson (@defaced) January 25, 2022 Cool! In a later tweet, Chris shares how it’s done: How this works!👷‍♀️ A @Cloudflare worker responds to requests …

How I Made a Self-Quoting Tweet

Oisín Moran created a tweet that contains a link to itself. https://t.co/MAbIwtoonW — quinetweet (@quinetweet) September 26, 2020 💡 Best viewed in a third-party Twitter client, as the Twitter website shows “This Tweet is unavailable” as it tries to expand the link. On his website he explains how he did it. Fundamentally the challenge is …

Easily write Twitter threads with ThreadStart

Whenever I write a Twitter Thread I carefully lay out my planned tweets in advance in a text editor. After manually adjusting my sentences to have tweetable parts, I tweet them out one by one. Quite a cumbersome work, where ThreadStart can do the heavy lifting for me instead: Creating a Twitter thread without guidance …

Cleverly Cropping Images on Twitter using AI

To crop uploaded images, Twitter doesn’t simply cut them off starting from the center. After first having used Face Detection, they – in 2018 already – switched to AI to cleverly crop uploaded images. Previously, we used face detection to focus the view on the most prominent face we could find. While this is not …

Tweet from the Firefox Address Bar by adding a Bookmark

In succession to Tweet from the Chrome Address Bar by adding a Custom Search Engine, you can also do this in Firefox. Simply define a bookmark (containing a %s wildcard) with a linked keyword and you’re good to go: Name: Compose Tweet Location: https://twitter.com/compose/tweet?text=%s Keyword: tweet You can now use the tweet keyword to start …

Tweet from the Chrome Address Bar by adding a Custom Search Engine

TIL: Chrome allows you to define a Custom Search Engine (CSE) by which you can search sites. The cool part is that you’re not really limited to search only, and that you can abuse these CSEs to become more productive. In this post I’ll show you how to tweet from the Chrome Address Bar. 🦊 …

Extract URLs, usernames, hashtags, etc. from tweets with twitter-text-js

If you ever have to work with Tweets, then twitter-text-js will surely come in handy: A JavaScript utility that provides text processing routines for Tweets. The library provides autolinking and extraction for URLs, usernames, lists, and hashtags. The following snippet for example will autolink the hashtag and the mentioned username: twitter.autoLink(twitter.htmlEscape('#hello < @world >')) Installation …

Turn a Twitter thread into an ad-free, single page with @threader_app

Now this is darn handy: ✨ Want to see some magic? 👀 Find a thread💬 Mention @threader_app with the word “compile”🤖 Get a reply from our bot with a link to the thread compiled in an article format — Threader (@threader_app) July 24, 2019 The tweet below for example … Because it keeps coming up, …

Easily create high resolution Twitter screenshots with “Screenshot a Tweet”

Nice new tool by Cameron Adams (The Man in Blue): just enter the URL of a tweet, et voila: you get a screenshot – without any cruft and in a decent resolution – in return. To do this on the technical side, I fetch the tweet text using Twitter’s API and then analyse the author’s …