TweetCompressor

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  This tweet had more than 140 characters, so it was replaced with a "SHORTENED: " tweet to make it less verbose.

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  The most common words are removed from the tweet, helping to remove some of the 280 characters.

Inspiration

We were tired of seeing long tweets in our timeline.

What it does

Takes any tweet with more than 140 characters in the timeline and remove any unnecessary words, as determined by a list of Stop Words.

How we built it

We wrote a Chrome extension that listens to changes in the DOM and checks to see if the tweet is over the limit. If so, it replaces the text on the tweet.

Challenges we ran into

Neither of us had used JQuery or had worked with the DOM before this, so learning how to use these things turned out to be harder than we thought.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're proud of being able to modify the HTML as it got updated by observing the DOM.

What we learned

We learned how to use JQuery, how the DOM works, and how Chrome extensions are written.

What's next for TweetCompressor

There's currently a bug with quote tweets, as the two separate parts show up as one tweet that's separated by a link. This causes both tweets to get shortened into one.

Built With

• chrome
• html5
• jquery