Greasemonkey Scripts: Friend Feed Twitter Client and Remove Visited Links

”Friend Feed” week seems to be continuing at IDT. But don’t worry, there’s a team of trained attack Bonobo monkeys prepared to take me into a dark alley and beat me up and make me suffer if I don’t stop talking about Friend Feed. What can I say? This is what it looks like when a web app gets people excited. I’ve put together two more Greasemonkey scripts to add features I want in Friend Feed.

• How to use Greasemonkey
• Script: Remove Visited Links
• Script: Twitter Client
• All of my Friend Feed scripts

How to Install Greasemonkey Scripts

• You need the Firefox web browser – Download and install
• You need to install Greasemonkey – How-To
• How to install a Greasemonkey script – How-To

Script: Remove Visited Links

One of the biggest problems with Friend Feed is the signal to noise ratio. Most of the web services it supports are for sharing links, and I keep seeing the same link percolating as different people share them. Wouldn’t it be great if it didn’t display links you’ve already looked at?

Before

After

Yes, it will hide the comments/likes for links you’ve already visited. What’s nice is that it uses Friend Feed’s built-in Hide feature. So it will remember to hide links even if you use Friend Feed from more than one computer.

Install Remove Visited Links

• Click here to install Friend Feed Remove Visited Links
• Permalink to this script (Right click and Copy link to share it)

Script: Twitter Enhancements

Yesterday I noted that about 50% of the traffic on Friend Feed is from Twitter. I think Friend Feed makes for a great Twitter client because of the way it handles threaded conversations. There’s a few things missing from Friend Feed though:

• The 140 character count
• Why doesn’t it automatically check the “reply on Twitter” box?
• Why can’t I send a Tweet from Friend Feed?

Twitter Reply Enhancements

If you respond to a tweet, you’ll always send it by Twitter as well as Friend Feed.

Click to Send a Tweet

Clicking ‘tweet’ will open this box

You can send Tweets directly from Friend Feed!

Username / Password

You will be asked for your username / password after installing the script. Greasemonkey stores your user/password combination in your web browser. If you need to reset your password click on the Tools menu in Firefox.

Shameless Promotion

Because I am a shameless media whore the first time you run the script it will send this message. This is how I test that you’ve entered the correct username/password. You should never see this tweet again unless you are changing your username / password very often.

Install Twitter Client

• Click here to install Friend Feed Twitter Client
• Permalink to this script (Right click and Copy link to share it)
  

My Other Friend Feed Greasemonkey Scripts

The scripts are packaged separately instead of being one massive script so that you can choose want you want to use.

• Click here to install Pagerization
• Click here to install Friend Feed Pagerization Fixer (needs Pagerization, description)
• Pick one of these two scripts:
  • Click here to install Friend Feed 50 Per Page (description)
  • Click here to install Friend Feed 100 Per Page (description)
• Click here to install Friend Feed Reshare Links (description)
• Click here to install Friend Feed Even More Expander (description)
• Click here to install Friend Feed Remove Visited Links (description)
• Click here to install Friend Feed Twitter Client (description)
• Click here to install Friend Feed By Service (description)

More Junk

• Here’s a long list of similar stuff I’ve done for other blogging / social web apps