Twitter Reloaded UserScript
Due to excessive downtime and API rate limiting by Twitter, I’ve been experimenting a bit with using Fluid to run Twitter in a Site Specific Browser (SSB). While I’d much rather be using Twitterific or Hahlo, this works pretty well, except I had no luck with any Twitter auto-reloading UserScripts I found. So, as usual, I wrote my own.
The script was uploaded to UserScripts.org, you can install it and view source over there: Twitter Reloaded on UserScripts.org
The script does a few things differently from other scripts I found:
- Reloading is postponed if there is any text in the status field
- A visual countdown is inserted into the top of the page
- Twitter pages are reloaded every two minutes, that’s probably still gratuitous, but every minute seemed like overkill.
check out hahlo.com
this works nice with fluid.app HUD(black) style
:)
I use Hahlo on my iPhone all the time, or at least I did until the rate limiting hit them too.
Howdy;
Mhh, what is the difference to http://www.twitrefresh.com ??
heh, not much. If I’d found that I might not have bothered. The main difference is that my script won’t nuke partially written tweets, it stops the refresh counter if there’s text in the status field. Anyway, I think my code is much tighter, plus I do plurals correctly (1 seconds?)
Thanks for the pointer
Hi,
great thing. I nuke direct messages. Any idea how to prevent that from happening?
Thanks
Thomas
@Thomas, Assuming you’re losing direct messages on Twitter’s site, I think see what the problem is and will try to get a fix uploaded later this morning.
The updated script has been uploaded to UserScripts. Enjoy.
mille grazie!