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Like most social media sites, twitter is very graphical, and very difficult to use from edbrowse,
or with any screen reader.
However, twitter has a mobile friendly website, mobile.twitter.com.
This is perfect!
You don't even need javascript - so turn it off with
nojs = twitter.com.
You can create an account (no captcha),
then enjoy most of twitter's features.
The following function logs me in quickly.
# twitter log in
function+twit {
e https://mobile.twitter.com/
# it doesn't come up the first time, but the second time's the charm
rf
b
/email or username/+X if() { i=eklhad64 /</ i=password /</ i } 5 }
I'm not sure why I have to refresh the home page to get in. This started June 25 2018. It could be a session cookie that lets me in the second time, or referer.
Use this function if you want to automatically skip past Twitter commercials.
# twitter log in
function+twit {
e https://mobile.twitter.com/
rf
b
/email or username/+X if() { i=eklhad64 /</ i=password /</ i } /{Dismiss}$/X while(*) { p g$ /{Dismiss}$/X } 5 }
If you follow a link from twitter, the url typically has search data after it, like ?campaign=twitter&foo=bar&blah=3837927377377. You can safely lop this off, especially if you are saving it as a bookmark. Run this function after the A command.
function :booklop {
# lop off ?search and append to bookmark file
1s/\?.*/'>/
w+ $webbook
}
Other twitter clients exist, but they don't dovetail nicely with edbrowse, and are beyond the scope of this article.