Getting rid of “promoted tweets”

While I now use Twitter solely as a ROM — read-only — I still use it quite a bit. One thing that annoys me — I mean, apart from the mangled English that passes for a bona fide language — is the new “promoted tweets” feature (I am using this word very loosely). 唔鐘意. Do. Not. Like. On my Mac I use mostly hootsuite. So I had a look at the source, and identified how the “special” tweets were identified. I then added a GreaseMonkey script to my collection:

// ==UserScript==
// @name           no promoted tweets
// @namespace      http://syngnyemun.org/
// @include        https://hootsuite.com/*
// @include        http://www.hootsuite.com/*
// ==/UserScript==

function getElementsByClassName(oElm, strTagName, strClassName){
var arrElements = (strTagName == “*” && oElm.all)? oElm.all : oElm.getElementsByTagName(strTagName);
var arrReturnElements = new Array();
//    strClassName = strClassName.replace(/\-/g, “\\-“);
//    var oRegExp = new RegExp(“(^|\\s)” + strClassName + “(\\s|$)”);
var oElement;
var tableau;
for(var i=0; i<arrElements.length; i++){
oElement = arrElements[i];
if(oElement.className==strClassName){
arrReturnElements.push(oElement);
tableau+=oElement.className+”\n”;
}
}
return (arrReturnElements)
}

var e;

e = getElementsByClassName(document, “div”, “message _message _promoted message-promoted”);
var i,j,n, txt, pos, pos1;
j=e.length;

for(i=0;i<j;i++) {
n=e[i];
n.style.display=’none’;
}

It works also on Safari, if you install GreaseKit. Bye bye, disguised ads.

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