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Obvious followup: can you share more about your whitelist and how it works?



This works great. Thanks!


Can't share sheet, but I use combination of old twitter - allows paginated twitter timeline copy (otherwise twitter unloads tweets), and copycat which copies in markdown, and run it process it through sheets. Outcome is something like this:

https://imgur.com/a/S5xTlPp

I have another sheet with twitter handles and an emoji tag for whitelist and list.

Every morning I'll load old twitter, search for the last processed tweet (saved in C2), usually a few pages of infinite scroll. Copy and past the mark down to F3:F, and run a script to process markdown into a daily twitter digest sorted by tag, handle, tweet in chrono order. Usually 300-600 tweets a day from white list of ~150. Date also links to the original tweet. B3 shows how many new tweets, D3 filters by oldest date. B2 drop down from whitelist to view tweets individual handles. Limitation is old twitter timeline does not show retweets (don't care about), or replies... which I also rarely care about. Every once in a while I'll scrape a users "tweet & replies" timeline to get everything.

Pre API crackdown this use to be a great automated service by streamspigot. There a few months automation worked on sheet script + importrss with nitter instances. Now just PIA, unless I figure out scraping (not that technical).

Solution not as automated, have to maintain process at least every few days (infinite scroll / autopagination bugs out after ~1000 tweets), but takes a few min to get my white list into a managable digest so I don't waste time on the app, which I then listen to via TTS like podcast.

https://streamspigot.appspot.com/tweet-digest/

old twitter https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/old-twitter-layout-...

copycat https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/copycat/jdjbiojkkln...


X also has some block words, and that has worked well for me too.




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