Show HN: TweetScreenr – fetch external links from your Twitter feed | Hacker News Reader

Show HN: TweetScreenr – fetch external links from your Twitter feed

tweetscreenr.com

7 pointslonesword7 comments

TweetScreenr (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.

Open articleView on HN

Happy 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.

I 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.

One more feature request for future iteration. Will be great to have the same functionality for Mastodon in addition to Twitter.

Thank you for the kind words and for upgrading! Let me look into why the settings page is throwing an error.

When 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 :)

Just deployed a fix and it seems to be working now. Thank you for your patience.

I can easily see myself opening this more frequently than twitter. No more distractions!

Reply on news.ycombinator.com