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Show HN: TweetScreenr – fetch external links from your Twitter feed
TweetScreenr (https://tweetscreenr.com/ https://tweetscreenr.com/) goes through your Twitter timeline (and your twitter lists) and fetches only those tweets with an external link. TweetScreenr grew out of my frustration with Twitter. I found myself relying on Twitter to follow a particular research community, but realized that I do not care about the actual tweets/threads - all I wanted was the link to the underlying paper/article. I also did not like how often I got sucked into reading an opinion thread (usually political), and I walk away 30 minutes later thinking to myself "do people really believe those things?". All I want out of Twitter is some sort of personalized hacker news, and this is my attempt at creating it.
Apart from viewing the external links/articles on the TweetScreenr web app, you can optionally receive a daily/weekly email digest or read them on an RSS reader. The premium version ($1 a month) supports blocking specific domains and accounts, and also supports Twitter Lists.
- _ketanbhatt 3y agoHappy user here! There is so much clutter on Twitter these days, sometimes opinions are fine and I want them, but sometimes I just want to get some useful links from my feed and see if I want to read something. Thank you! It is a steal at this price, I will definitely pay more for this.
- dt2020 3y agoI absolutely love this product!! Thank you for starting this! I’ve been looking for something like this since Nuzzle was purchased by Twitter and discontinued. I just upgraded to premium to get the RSS functionality but if I try to go to settings after upgrading, I keep getting “ Internal Server Error”. The homepage works fine, but I can’t get into settings. I connected to my Twitter account successfully and can see the articles on the homepage.
- dt2020 3y agoOne more feature request for future iteration. Will be great to have the same functionality for Mastodon in addition to Twitter.
- lonesword 3y agoThank you for the kind words and for upgrading! Let me look into why the settings page is throwing an error.
- lonesword 3y agoWhen the user visits `/settings` I fetch all the lists from twitter and BatchWrite them into DynamoDB. Turns out you have way more than 25 lists, and the BatchWrite fails. Let me see if I can quickly give a fix. Thanks for reporting this :)
- lonesword 3y agoJust deployed a fix and it seems to be working now. Thank you for your patience.
- priyankvex 3y agoI can easily see myself opening this more frequently than twitter. No more distractions!