I often share material on Twitter when I find something interesting. This is the primary purpose of Twitter for me: share and find interesting links. Right now, the process is a bit cumbersome. I have to switch tabs and paste the URL manually. Sometimes I need to also copy the title which means another set of tab-switches. It is not much time, but it adds up in the long run.<\/p>\n
Thus, in the spirit of Automate the boring stuff<\/a><\/em>, I wanted to see if I could find a way to speed it up a bit. Essentially, what I need is a pop-up menu or some equivalent so that I can quickly share material and with useful defaults (html title<\/a> and URL as defaults).<\/p>\n I tried (search results<\/a>):<\/p>\n Very often, I also share images from the URL in question. Thus, it would be nice with a system such that I could choose which images from the site to use (if any). Facebook has a similar feature when one posts (one can choose the picture for the thumbnail).<\/p>\n While I’m at it, I want to see if Twitter can otherwise be made better. One frequent problem is that I need to search a person’s tweets (often my own) to find something I think or know is there. However, Twitter lacks satisfactory search functionality, so one has to rely on Google custom searches (for instance, to find my tweets about publication bias<\/a>) or find a better solution. I did not find a better solution.<\/p>\n It seems useful to write up functionalities that I want for Twitter.<\/p>\n I often share material on Twitter when I find something interesting. This is the primary purpose of Twitter for me: share and find interesting links. Right now, the process is a bit cumbersome. I have to switch tabs and paste the URL manually. Sometimes I need to also copy the title which means another set […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2285,407,2284,2283],"class_list":["post-5726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-extension","tag-firefox","tag-search","tag-twitter","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5726"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5730,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5726\/revisions\/5730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nDoes not seem to have any effect.<\/li>\n
\nUseful, but the sidebar hotkey does not work and the menu method of opening it is too slow, and I don’t want it open all the time. Lacks useful defaults.<\/li>\n
\nBingo. One button to open the share-link, has both the defaults I want.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nItems on my wishlist for Twitter<\/h3>\n
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\nCurrent workaround involves using Google custom search, but this is not easy to expand to multiple users. For instance, if I know it was a tweet in my feed but don’t know who posted it, I would want to search all tweets from all users that I follow.<\/li>\n
\nTwitter has 3 filters built in: tweets, tweets and replies, and media content. However, their first category actually includes retweets as well and some people post good tweets but retweet a bunch of stuff I don’t care about, thus decreasing the average interestingness of their output that I see. This could be solved by filtering out retweets from those persons, but that is currently not possible.<\/li>\n
\nGet rid of ads. Twitter Inc. itself will not like that idea, but it is useful to me.<\/li>\n
\nSome people post things that are more interesting to me than others. However, Twitter offers only two options: see stuff from that user or don’t see stuff. Facebook has introduced a tiered approach to following people’s updates: normal, see first and close friends<\/a> (one can also hide stuff from friends while keeping them on the friend list, but this is not very applicable to Twitter).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"