I got interviewed on KSL today on The Browser radio show about one of my Kynetx Apps that I built to filter out foul language on Twitter.com You can find the extensions at http://geek.michaelgrace.org/2011/01/foul-fowl-control-kynetx-app-for-twitter-com/
For a list of other interesting Apps/browser extensions that I and others have built for twitter, check out this blog post by Kynetx
Keywordicon is an experimental Kynetx app that I built to modify the Twitter.com interface. It is based on the same code that runs my recently published tweet filter Kynetx app. I thought it would be interesting to annotate each tweet with icons based on key words found in the tweet… thus the name keywordicon (pronounced like favicon but with 33% more syllables). I don’t expect very many people to use it but it’s an interesting concept and it has been fun to use it and see how it changes the way I am able to skim through my tweet stream and stop at places that are interesting to me.
App loaded in meta tray (was going to have settings here but decided to keep it simple w/out settings)
Tweet annotated with keywordicon
See the app in action through moving pictures!
This is another Kynetx App that I have built to enhance the Twitter.com web interface. This app allows you to hide or highlight tweets based on words found in each tweet. The app also remembers your list of word between each use. Just add a list of words separated by commas with no spaces and click update!
Demo video:
I have long longed for the ability to not see foul language in my Twitter stream. Why I didn’t think to create a Kynetx app before now to do this very thing is beyond me. Today a friend of mine on Twitter mentioned that he also wished there was a way to filter or hide foul language in tweets so I decided I would build this app. I decided to build the app so that it would replace foul words with asterisks instead of just hiding the tweet from the tweet stream, which I could build another app to do or I could have a setting to change the functionality. I also don’t have a way for new words to be censored other than you contacting me and asking me to add a word to the list. I don’t really want an inbox full of foul language but if you see that my app has missed something that you think should be hidden then let me know via twitter or email and I’ll probably add it.
I’m not going to show before and after action shots but I can show you how the app behaves when I was testing it with a list of random words:
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If you are interested in seeing the code that makes this app work the way it does, you can check it out over at http://kynetxappaday.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/find-and-replace-words-in-twitter-tweet-stream/