←
→

Twitter: A greasemonkey script to show who follows you

Posted: January 1, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: blog | Tags: , , , , , , | 9 Comments »

A couple of days ago I saw @skap5′s comment:

“Dear Twitter Is it too much to ask to add a follower marker so I can know if someone is following me and not just if I am following them?”

I think that Twitter could benefit from displaying more information on the home page, and this idea was easy enough to code up. It should save some time and make the Twitter homepage that much more useful.

twitter_showfollowers_screenshotThe script displays a tiny icon on top of the portrait of people who are following you back on your Twitter home page. It leaves your non-followers alone, though it would be easy enough to develop a version that puts silly mustaches on them.

This is only a first version, and I welcome your comments and suggestions.

If you already have Greasemonkey installed, get the script here, or install it from here as a Firefox extension thanks to the script compiler.

The icon is a free icon courtesy of famfamfam.

Updated February 5, 2009: The script has been updated to work with Twitter’s recent UI changes.

Updated March 31, 2009: The script has been updated to account for Twitter’s recent UI changes and the addition of AJAX updates.

  • http://crumpleitup.com Greg Matthews

    What if you don’t have a greasemonkey installed? Or, worse, what if you’re such an idiot that you don’t know what a greasemonkey is? Because I am *just* such an idiot! ;-)

  • admin

    Hi Greg,

    Greasemonkey is a Firefox Extension that allows you to run JavaScript against page content after it’s loaded. You can get it here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748

    You can also skip that and use this script as its own Firefox Extension. Download that file here, and Firefox should prompt you to install it.

    Enjoy!

  • http://www.fastforwardblog.com Rokapchen

    So helpful. Thanks for this.

    For others who are just as dense as I am, once the script is downloaded, drag it into the Firefox/Flock UI to install.

  • Pingback: Library clips :: Roundup : Who Follows You, Set up your Twitter list, Twply, Mr Tweet, Twitter-to-FriendFeed Contact Sync :: January :: 2009

  • Laultella

    I am unable to understand this post. But well some points are useful for me.

  • http://fak3r.com fak3r

    This is a really good idea, I would think Twitter should have something like this by design, but they’re still developing things. Of course when you see how clickjacking is still an option, they’re not developing very well on the security front. Thanks for the tip!

  • http://imusicmash.com Al

    Nice idea Hilary. I’ve loaded the script. Works great.

    You may find my Twitter Bios at a Glance script helpful too. Saves tons of time in helping you decide who you might want to follow.

    I’m on userscripts:
    http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/38797

    thanks again,
    Al

  • Pingback: Greasing the bird : enhancing Twitter with GreaseMonkey | False Positives

  • badabing

    Will ther be an update for the Twitter UI changes ??

←
→