Filter & Sort your twitter feed with HackyBird !

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Features :

• Filter out tweets by keywords
• Sort a timeline / feed / search results by retweets & likes
• Assign weights to users (for sorting)
• Mark tweets as "read"
• No signup required !

Usage :

• Go to twitter home page or a timeline or search results in your browser
• Click to filter / sort
• You can load more tweets & click the icon again to filter / sort
• You can also hide tweets that have been sorted (see options)

Options :

(right click to select options)

Filter by keywords

• You can enter comma separated keywords. Any tweet containing these keywords would be hidden when you click the hackybird icon.
• Alternately, you can download popular keywords from https://mute.life by clicking "mute.life" button

Sort by popularity

• Click "enable sort"
• Adjust the weight percentage for retweets & likes (for estimating popularity of a tweet, for sorting). E.g. 100% retweet and 0% like means sorting would consider retweet count only.
• You can choose to normalize the count of retweets & likes by the tweet's age (e.g. to see what's hot)
• You can mark the tweets as "read". Tweets once sorted will be hidden from subsequent sort operations. Simply uncheck the box or reload the page to undo that.

User weights

• Hover over a username (on twitter.com) to adjust a user's weight (used for sorting). Default weight is 1

• Non-default weights are visible under options

Why would I use this

• You follow anywhere from a dozen to a few hundred people on twitter
• You don't want to miss out on the important stuff & don't have to sift through the drivel
• You want to fine tune & re-arrange your timeline
• You dislike "magic" sorting. You want predictability & control

FAQ

Q : Do I need to signup or authorize with my twitter account ? A : No. Just open your twitter timeline or search anything on twitter or go to any user's feed & click the extension to sort.

Q : Are my settings sync'd in the cloud or with my google account ? A : Currently no. All settings are saved in your browser's local storage.

Q : How do I unhide the tweets (that were marked as read) A : Either reload the page OR uncheck the "Mark as read" option

Q : What is "user weight" ? A : Higher weight => tweets & retweets from the user would be shown higher up. Default is 1. Any other value is multiplied to the count of retweets & likes. So a user weight of 1.5 with 100 retweets & 20 likes has a score = 1.5 x (100 + 20)

Q : How do I change the "user weight" ? A : After you've sorted your timeline (i.e. clicked on the extension), you can simply hover over the username of either the tweeter or the retweeter. A small floating box will show up with either the default weight (i.e. 1) or whatever value you've stored in the past. Just enter a new value & you should be done.

Q : What is "Normalize" in options ? A : If checked, the count of retweets & likes is divided by the age of the tweet (in seconds). Otherwise absolute count is used.

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