TwitGrid – A simple, broadsheet layout for reading Twitter feeds

https://github.com/nuket/TwitGrid

by tnolet • 6 years ago

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rurounijones• 6 years ago

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Chrome of course, by default, leaks like a sieve."

That made me laugh, also like the idea although I do not relly use Twitter.

mvilimpoc7• 6 years ago

I do it all for the laughs.

erikrothoff• 6 years ago

We've done something similar with Feeder Dashboard. You can mix RSS feeds and Twitter feeds, with unread/read states you get a glance of what you've missed, making it hard to fall into infinite scrolling. An example is our public dashboard for the us elections: https://feeder.co/dashboard/us-elections

mvilimpoc7• 6 years ago

Interesting. It's a good, concise interface. Still not a fan of horizontal scrolling, though. I probably won't ever get used to that. :) But then I'm one of those weirdos who has a portrait-mode secondary monitor set up. (I'm the author of TwitGrid.)

PStamatiou• 6 years ago

Can you expand on the issues you have with TweetDeck?

oh-4-fucks-sake• 6 years ago

First line in the README specifies that this project is a response to Tweetdeck.

davidcollantes• 6 years ago

Yes, but why?

vayne• 6 years ago

I run a few bots which notifies on Slack/Discord. I think a Tweetdeck like grid would make more sense for them. Since these notifications are sometimes a little too chatty, I think it sits in-between a Tweet and Notification.

Raphmedia• 6 years ago

I wish this allowed you to follow # instead of @. To me twitter is a way to follow topics and get an idea of what's the buzz in my communities.

snypher2• 6 years ago

It seems like Twitter handles hashtags as search results, but usernames as end points.

mvilimpoc7• 6 years ago

This is actually what TweetDeck is for. The columns run into infinite scrolling land pretty fast with # topic searches. Still, it's on my mind to parametrize what handles / topics to load via the URL hash, so stay tuned. Easier than downloading / editing the original file anyways.

This would also allow you to directly bookmark a collection of handles / copy / paste a URL to others.

snypher2• 6 years ago

This is a cool project and something I'll definitely be using.

I was concerned that it was 7Mb of code but most of that is the animated png :)

mvilimpoc7• 6 years ago

Heck no, the single-page HTML is currently only 17KB with a ton of comments. I try to keep things light. :)

Maybe someday I'll use TypeScript, Babel, React, and Webpack to generate a 7MB version.

mvilimpoc7• 6 years ago

TwitGrid now takes parameters passed in via the URL fragment (everything after the # in a URL).

For example, you can do this:

https://vilimpoc.org/research/TwitGrid/#columns=8;users=vili...

And it will parse that and layout the feeds in 8 columns per viewport. The viewport can then be paged up / down.

mvilimpoc7• 6 years ago

There is now an explainer video -- https://youtu.be/S8JrmXg0BNo -- for why this exists in the first place.

TwitGrid – A simple, broadsheet layout for reading Twitter feeds

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