AutoLink for Twitter – New Greasemonkey Script
@Pistachio on Twitter gave me a great idea for a new Greasemonkey script. Twitter users know that putting the @ sign in front of someone’s Twitter ID (e.g. @twitterID) is the way to reply to that person through twitter. When you’re on twitter.com, or using a twitter client, this @twitterID is usually hyperlinked to that Twitter profile page (e.g. http://www.twitter.com/twitterID ). However, this is usually NOT the case when you view a Twitter ID on any other webpage (including Gmail). I decided to put together a Greasemonkey script that changes that, so that any Twitter ID, anywhere (even in Gmail) will be hyperlinked to the corresponding Twitter profile page.
Since I try not to reinvent the wheel when possible, I built my script on top of Jesse Ruderman’s AutoLink Greasemonkey script. (I did delete some of the functionality that people might not want, such as bugzilla IDs and phone numbers – if you want the full version of that script, get it here. Note that you’ll have to merge my Twitter filter into his script if you want the Twitter auto-linking functionality.)
Once you install the script, @rossruns will look like @rossruns. As an added benefit, Jesse’s script already converted email addresses and plainlink URLs into hyperlinked versions, so you get that auto-linking functionality with this script, too.
Want to install this script for your own use? First install Greasemonkey, and then get the script here. (Instructions to install Greasemonkey can be found here.)