[Noisebridge-discuss] Re: Announcing Twitfilter 0.1

[aestetix aestetix]

Two things:

First: For those who are wary of installing something without seeing the
code, you can right click the link and download the xpi. It is just a zip
file (and the jar inside is also a zip file), and the entire codebase is
HTML and javascript.

Second: here's a little documentation.

   1. To use this, you must already have a twitter account.
   2. Download <http://pinky.ratman.org/%7Eaestetix/twitfilter.xpi> and
   Install the plugin, restart firefox, and you'll see a blue bird icon to the
   left of your address bar.
   3. Click on that, and either click on login (mouseover the buttons until
   you find it) or click "FRIENDS".
   4. This allows you to log in, and effectively drops a plugin cookie
   preserving some semblance of state.
   5. Then click on "FILTERS"
   6. Enter the screennames of people you want to contact
   7. Click the "Mass Distribute Tweet" field to enter a message
   8. Click "Filter Tweets!"

I have successfully gotten this to work for up for four people. There's a
strange timing issue I still need to fix, and a few other little things, but
the core functionality is there.

Keep in mind, this is super super super alpha (thus version 0.1), so a lot
of usability you might be used to is not present (yet). I'm playing with
this in the downtime, so there will definitely be improvements in the near
future. Feel free to make suggestions, or contribute code!

aestetix

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 3:35 AM, aestetix aestetix <aestetix at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> After spending way too many painstaking hours learning how to make/edit
> firefox plugins, I have managed to integrate the shell script I wrote before
> into a workable plugin. I use the word "workable" very loosely, as I still
> haven't been able to get it to work fully reliably... I've gotten up to four
> messages sent our before it dies. Probably something in the javascript.
>
> So for those who missed the previous email: this allows users to specify a
> list of their twitter friends, and send a mass direct message to all of
> them. It hackfully solves the "groups" issue we've been dealing with since
> day 1. If anyone wants to alpha test it, I uploaded it to
> http://pinky.ratman.org/~aestetix/twitfilter.xpi<http://pinky.ratman.org/%7Eaestetix/twitfilter.xpi>.
> I'll work on improving stability (and fighting with the twitter server) over
> the next couple of days, but I wanted to get the idea and the "product" out
> there for people to share and contribute.
>
> I apologize for the undoubted array of bugs and complete lack of
> documentation, which I blame on having been up too late, coding for far too
> long. Seems I have too much free time these days :)
>
> aestetix
>
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