DeCluttering Twitter, Part Deux
If you're just here to learn how to kill the Twitter Hovercards, then drag the Hovercard Removal bookmarklet to your browser's bookmarks bar, go twitter.com, click it and you're done!
Read on if you're in any way curious about the technical errata behind this..
Most of my twitter usage comes via applications that makes use of the API, such as Tweetie on the iPhone or the Echofon plugin for Firefox. However, I still spend a considerable amount of my time a-tweetin' via the web interface.
For the most part, twitter's web interface is reasonably clean, but there are still a few niggly bits that I'd rather do without. Luckily, one of the beauties of the web interface is that it allows the usage of bookmarklets, so if there's something you don't like, a quick line of javascript in the browser's address bar will sort it out!
I've written previously about using bookmarklets to hide tweets from your timeline that contain blacklisted words (sport-related, xbox achievements, etc). The next step is now to use bookmarklets to tweak the web interface itself. A nice side-effect of Twitter's use of jQuery for the web interface is that all of the jQuery selectors and functions are available to us, should we need them.
We'll start by hiding the Hovercard!