Update: it was bugging me, so I went ahead and wrote the greasemonkey script. It highlights replies in yellow, and the last message you read in green. Here’s the Userscripts.org page.
I just recently started using Twitter, and so far I like it a lot more than I ever thought I would. This is a problem, though, because I now use it enough to be very frustrated with its faults. Obviously their scaling problems are an issue that many, many people have talked about, and there are a number of core changes that might make the service better (location-based tweets, additional tweet “types,” etc). But I’m not talking about anything so grandiose—these are just two simple changes to the UI that would make me very happy.
Every time I refresh my twitter home page, I have to scroll down and find where I left off. Wouldn’t it be nice if twitter remembered that for you and added a nice little separator in your timeline? It’s a very simple interface tweak, but could save you a few seconds each time you check twitter.
Often, even after I’ve found the last tweet I’ve seen, I don’t have time to read through everything posted since then, so I skim. Normally I’m looking for conversations that I’m either watching or a part of, or I’m looking for replies to my tweets. Now conversations/threading is an issue that goes into the “bigger problem” category (an issue that Plurk has solved nicely, by the way), but showing replies should be easy as pie. If a tweet has @inxilpro in it, just highlight it or use some icon to differentiate it.
I realize that both of these UI changes could be solved with a little Greasemonkey script. In fact, I plan on writing such a script when I have a spare moment (hah!). I also realize that both these problems are solved by a number of Twitter clients out there, so maybe I’ll give Twitterific another chance.
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