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Show HN: I Created a Chrome Extension for PG: TRAB (Tweet Reporter and Blocker)

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Post by impish19 »

A few days ago I saw this tweet from PG: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1496549841912094733 ...and guessed it shouldn't be too hard to make a chrome extension to do this (I had never made a chrome extension before)

So I took a stab at it - took me a bit over a day to make it, and it was fun to put together.

I responded to his tweet with the link to the extension but I'm not sure if he would've seen it.

edit: Looks like I missed the approval notification for the listing of this extension on the chrome store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/trab-tweet-reporte...

Show HN: I Created a Chrome Extension for PG: TRAB (Tweet Reporter and Blocker)
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Post by impish19 »

aluminum96 wrote: post #5

Would you expand this to allow reporting of bots and manipulated accounts? I've seen a ton of false reports about the RU invasion of UA from recently-created accounts this week.

I suppose bots can still be reported with this as spam

When you report a tweet today, twitter only allows to report for these categories: https://imgur.com/a/uoS3dZe

I'm not sure what category would apply to 'manipulated accounts' and how you would establish that. Objectively false information could probably be reported as 'misleading' I suppose? I'd be open to facilitating that if there's significant interest - might need to add a new button for that category.

Re: Show HN: I Created a Chrome Extension for PG: TRAB (Tweet Reporter and Blocker)

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Post by Griffinsauce »

impish19 wrote: post #6
aluminum96 wrote: post #5

Would you expand this to allow reporting of bots and manipulated accounts? I've seen a ton of false reports about the RU invasion of UA from recently-created accounts this week.

I suppose bots can still be reported with this as spam When you report a tweet today, twitter only allows to report for these categories: https://imgur.com/a/uoS3dZe I'm not sure what category would apply to 'manipulated accounts' and how you would establish that. Objectively false information could probably be reported as 'misleading' I suppose? I'd be open to facilitating that if there's significant interest - migh…

> might need to add a new button for that category.

I see where this is headed :D

Re: Show HN: I Created a Chrome Extension for PG: TRAB (Tweet Reporter and Blocker)

#9

Post by impish19 »

Griffinsauce wrote: post #8
impish19 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suppose bots can still be reported with this as spam When you report a tweet today, twitter only allows to report for these categories: https://imgur.com/a/uoS3dZe I'm not sure what category would apply to 'manipulated accounts' and how you would establish that. Objectively false information could probably be reported as 'misleading' I suppose? I'd be open to facilitating that if there's significant interest - migh…

> might need to add a new button for that category. I see where this is headed :D

Touché
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