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Twitter Whitespace: a Safari extension

dwineman:

Ever notice how you can enter as many spaces and line breaks as you want when posting a tweet, but when Twitter displays it, they mysteriously disappear?

And did you also notice that Twitter clients, not to mention sites like Favstar and Tweetboner, are somehow able to display tweets as they were written, whitespace and all?

Doesn’t that just chafe your hiney?

Well, if you use Safari,¹ chafe no longer. I’ve come up with a marvelous new extension² that solves all these problems and more!³

Download Twitter Whitespace today. Then double-click it in your Downloads window to install.

Works with New Twitter as well as Old Twitter. When you view your timeline at twitter.com with this extension installed, spacing and linebreaks will be displayed as the author intended.⁴

Never again be in doubt of a tweet’s true orthography. Embrace the \n, the <br>, even — dare I breathe its name — the  .

And, goddamn it, live a little.

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1. If you don’t use Safari, well, hope you enjoy being dead to me. ↩

2. A single line of code. Seriously low-hanging fruit here, guys. ↩

3. Does not actually solve any other problems. ↩

4. Tweets in the New Twitter detail pane (and individual tweet pages) are displayed almost correctly; Twitter actually appears to be rewriting the tweet text in those cases, so runs of line breaks get collapsed. Not much I can do about that, unfortunately. ↩

Dear Dan,

I love you. Not because I’ve been waiting around for someoneANYONE to solve this most pressing of issues confronting modern man (I haven’t), but because you dreamt it up, produced it, and released it, without even so much as a months-long campaign of self-aggrandizing prophecy or even a tiring series of tantalizing dribbble shots. That’s sexy, Dan. It’s why, some day, someone’s gonna name a musky cologne after you.

Ass slaps,

Geoff