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Home Page: ztratar.github.io/followr
A no-frills chrome extension to gain followers on twitter through tasteful automation.
Home Page: ztratar.github.io/followr
Followr is a great discovery tool, but when dealing with polarized debates or topics related to crime, full automation can get pretty ugly when you like bad news or tweets supporting the opposite you support... I know that people may not be following your like list at all times, but still... I tried throwing a few blacklist keywords but it hasn't been conclusive yet, followr has liked a lot of tweets I wouldn't have liked myself.
Would a semi-automated option (followr brings up suggestions and human decides what to like) make sense for anybody else than me, at least in the learning stage?
With this extension loaded, any .btn
button within the Twitter UI is getting the following user agent styles applied:
Resulting in really tight kerning everywhere, because of the letter-spacing: 1px;
(most other styles are being overridden elsewhere in the actual CSS from twitter.com):
If I disable this extension and don’t touch anything else, those styles go away. I’ve looked through the code of this extension though, and these styles don’t seem to be anywhere in this repo. I have no idea where this user agent stylesheet rule is coming from, but I’ve narrowed it down to this extension being enabled being the factor which reproduces the issue for me.
Notes:
.btn
, for example if I view the Bootstrap docs it’s fine.master
branch, not via the Chrome extension store.@ztratar Any ideas?
Something seems to currently be wrong with this plugin. It currently just closes the new tab that is supposed to work on the follows. Tab opens and then closes. Great plugin in. I loved it before the very last update.
If you need more specifics on this issue I can give them. I am not sure you are aware that this great plugin stopped working with the latest update.
Steps to reproduce:
Possible fix: Before calling chrome.tabs.create (https://github.com/ztratar/followr/blob/master/src/bg/background.js#L31), call chrome.windows.getCurrent and check for an open window. Not tested.
It would be nice to have some sort of date analytics based on followers. i.e X followers in X weeks.
I love Followr Ive been creating chrome user accounts and opening separate windows for each twitter account and keep Followr running on those - beats logging in and out each time!
The last time Followr favorites something is September 26th. Since then there are only favorites that I did myself.
"Finding new tweets..." spins for a moment, then hangs with 100% CPU usage. The window closes soon after.
Reinstalling doesn't help. The last time I updated Chrome was 2014-08-23, so that's not the problem. Did Twitter change something?
Filing for an appeal now. Fingers crossed?
Couple of days ago it stopped working. It is stuck at loading tweets sections and does not seem to like new tweets. @ztratar
When trying to install on Google Chrome (Version 33.0.1750.149), installation failed with "Manifest file is invalid" error.
Currently churns and then closes without favoriting - has anyone else experienced a similar issue?
Finding new tweets
sometimes hangs. Instead of waiting for it to never succeed, some timeout needs to be in place.
Sorry not the best on computers but loving this piece of software but it has stopped working. I have no idea why? it goes through to the grey screen looking for tweets then just freezes and stops?
Any help please?
Regards
Craig
I have accumulated around 10k favorites with my Account... we should make followr to remove old favorites 'pseduo randomly' too.
Just an idea.
I recently upgraded to v1. The first time I ran it (after clicking save) it gathered 896 tweets to favorite and started chugging along at about one per second. Since it gave no hint of stopping, I closed the window manually at ~30 and, in the meantime, disabled the extension.
Just relaunched followr after a few months, and it doesn't seem to be working. Guessing Twitter have changed some things on their website which has messed up with the functionality. But is this project dead? Are you still working on it at all?
Seemed to stop working on me... any way I could help you out? (logs/whatever)
Not even sure if this would be possible, but it would be nice to restrict to a particular location, even if its only country based?
Followr seems stuck on one account. Where is the ability to switch to a different Twitter account?
Example: https://twitter.com/ArchUpdates/status/506942008053624832
I follow #archlinux tag, but I'd like to ignore @ArchUpdates user since all their tweets are automatic and there are so many of them, that followr rarely favorites #archlinux tagged tweets from other users.
I propose user names (e.g. ArchUpdates) and full names (e.g. ArchLinux Updates) are taken into account for blacklisted words.
21 followers gained
That's cool to know how many people were attracted by Followr. However, it would be good to know what topics made what numbers. I could get rid of inefective tags.
Let's say the "Topics to follow" are: #first, #second, @Company, blah. After clicking a 21 followers gained
link, more detailed stats would appear. Please note that 10 + 10 + 2 = 22, not 21. It's possible when a tweet had more than one tags that Followr monitors.
#first: 10
#second: 10
@company: 2
blah: 0
Cool plugin!
Followr worked fine until I imported about 100+ words into the blacklist. 316 to be exact. Why the long list? I included a list of vulgar/bad words from a-z.
Thank you for this chrome extension . I appreciate the time and effort you put into this.
UPDATE:
Best,
Clifford
I find that when I'm scrolling through the feed or writing a tweet, the window will close automatically. Seems to be a bug in the latest version of Followr. Have you encountered this?
Thanks for all of your work @ztratar.
It stopped working a week ago!
I was having so much fun with it :(
Make it work again PLEASE :(
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