A script that simulates a quote-tweet notifications tab

Currently hacking together a script that will sort of allow you to check your notifications for quote-tweets.

Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv · Jun 7, 2019

Nice Here’s my #1 rec for @twitter: realize that quote tweets are a killer feature of your product. Add it as a separate part of notifications besides All and Mentions. And separate it from RTs. Ie make it “likes, RTs, QTs”. Sounds radical? It’ll push this game into hyperdrive

quoting @patrickc: A former Stripe user, who now works here, has written some remarkably good documents about how we should improve various parts of Stripe.

Jul 29, 2019

Okay, here it is! Tagging zettelkasten & threader-folks: @visakanv, @conaw, @QiaochuYuan, @BillSeitz, @micahtredding, @context_ing gist.github.com/malcolmocean/0…

@visakanv @Conaw @QiaochuYuan @BillSeitz @micahtredding @context_ing I'm also gonna tag the people who retweeted Visa's original tweet about QTs as killer-feature 🚀 - @okohonen - @verohecko - @TheBigSTD - @JonesOnTheNBA (I made a little script that can simulate having a QT-notifications tab)

@visakanv @Conaw @QiaochuYuan @BillSeitz @micahtredding @context_ing @okohonen @verohecko @TheBigSTD @JonesOnTheNBA This is mostly a proof of concept, because: A) it's a little script, not a full-on userscript or browser extension. It wouldn't be much work to do that but I've already spent enough time on this today. This means you have to run it manually every time.

B) the ratio of other shit to QTs is so high that since it can only filter, it must load & hide hundreds of other likes etc ...which makes it very slow (so, in my experience, it's hard to get further back than a few hundred notifications, which might be only 1-5 QTs)

Non-QTs are shown as 2px lines so that you can see that it's indeed loading more—and see how much chaff it is separating from your wheat.

HOW TO USE: 1. open your Notifications on Twitter 2. open the javascript console (How: tinyurl.com/jscons) 3. paste in this script and hit enter 4. wait (& maybe trigger Twitter's "load more" function by scrolling up/down or switching to/from the tab)