It won’t give you a deep dive into the user’s account. But you will get a sense of the Twitter account without having to dig around looking for mentions and retweets.īut it is just a sense. Google does not cache Twitter user pages with a uniform speed when I tested the bookmarklet I found accounts that had been cached within the last 12 hours and other accounts that hadn’t been cached for over a day. So if I wanted to see the tweets from my friend Daniel Gray I’d type mpgomatic in the search box:Īnd get Google’s cache of his Twitter page. If you use upper case letters instead of all lower case you might have problems, too.) (Do not include the sign it makes things wacky. You either highlight the name of the Twitter user and click on the bookmarklet, or you click on the bookmarklet without highlighting and enter the Twitter username. It works the same way in Chrome, and similarly in Firefox except when you right-click on the bookmarks bar, you should choose New Bookmark…. To put one in your own browser, right-click on the bookmarks toolbar, choose Add page…, paste the JavaScript into the URL field and give the bookmark a name. I have this bookmarklet on my Chromium bookmarks bar it’s called Twitter Jail. It’s a quick bookmarklet that looks like this: javascript:q = "" + (window.getSelection ? window.getSelection() : document.getSelection ? document.getSelection() : ().text) if (!q) q = prompt("Please enter a Twitter handle", "") if (q!=null) location="" + escape(q).replace(/ /g, "+") void 0 Who were they? What were they talking about? Whether you can see someone’s tweets and activity is dependent on things like whether or not you’re following them and what kind of penalty they’re experiencing, so I made a tool that lets me look at a suspended/deleted/vanished Twitter page without using Twitter at all. When I’m on Twitter I’ll see tweets like “So and so got suspended,” or “So and so deleted their account,” or “So and so is in Twitter jail.” Naturally this makes me curious. Twitter will also apparently lock your account if you tweet too much within a certain time span. Professional wrestler Tama Tonga got into a pretty fierce online altercation with a fan, then had his account locked by Twitter for a period of time (24 hours? 48? It’s not clear) after which he came back to Twitter looking for the person who got him suspended. The Tama Tonga example is the best non-political example I could find. Twitter kicks people off its platform like many social media sites do, but Twitter jail is when someone is temporarily suspended. Not that Twitter has some kind of claim of moral authority over Facebook, and I’ll probably move on to more MeWe/Mastodon eventually, but in the meantime I’m using Twitter and it has one big annoyance for me: Twitter jail. As I move away from Facebook I’m spending more time on Twitter.
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