eduardojm / x-filter-unreal-accounts

WIP Chrome Extension to hide some tweets from not real peoples on X (Twitter)

Filter Unreal Accounts for X (Twitter)

This is an wip extension to hide tweets on the X (Twitter) with some accounts with patterns of fake accounts.

Is a personal project for personal use purpose, but contributtions are welcome.

Context

On the brazillian political scene, we have a largest quantity of bots or human spammers with some patterns on the words (like various numbers on the handle, some ofensive words and other things). One of basic motivation of this extension is to filter some absurd tweets from the polluted feed.

Other motivation for this extension is some ads with fake picture of famous brazillian TV presenter being arrested.

Runing in Develop Mode

1. Clone the Repository

git clone https://github.com/EduardoJM/x-filter-unreal-accounts.git

2. Install the dependencies

cd x-filter-unreal-accounts
yarn

3. Build the scripts with webpack

yarn webpack

4. To load the extension, uses the chrome documentation.

Production

As a personal WIP, is not disponible on the chrome extensions page for now.

x-filter-unreal-accounts's Issues

mark the tweet as processed to reduce processing more than one time, each tweet

setup typescript and configure project folders

Create a basic configuration system based on the web storage API's

Refs

• https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/ui/options-page?hl=pt-br

implements a better way of process the tweets inside the page

using an setInterval is not performatic.