GreaseMonkey script to show if a twitter user follows you or not

As requested by Josh here’s a greasemonkey script that shows if a certain user follows you on twitter by adding a (follows you) to their name on their profile page.

It works – kinda. As there is no way to get a list of all the people a certain twitter user follows on one page (unless I missed something in the API - help please?) the script first checks if you are in the 30 first followers on the page (the thumbs) and if you are not it loads the “friends” page of a certain user and checks if you are in that page. This covers 60 cases, but not all. Oh well…

Source:

// UserScript

// @name           Follower

// @namespace      twittertools

// @description    Shows in an obvious way if a certain twitter user is following you

// @include        http://twitter.com/

// /UserScript


	
(function(){

if(document.getElementById(‘profile_link’)){

var you = document.getElementById(‘profile_link’).href.replace(/.*//,’‘);

var friends = document.getElementById(‘friends’);

var header = document.getElementsByTagName(‘h2’)[0];

var friends = document.getElementById(‘friends’);

if(friends.innerHTML.indexOf(‘/’+you)!==-1){

var side = document.getElementById(‘friends’);

var header = document.getElementsByTagName(‘h2’)[0];

header.innerHTML += ’ (follows you)’;

} else {

var url = window.location.href + ‘/friends’;

var isme = ‘http://twitter.com/’ + you;

GM_xmlhttpRequest({

method: ‘GET’,

url:url,

onload: function(responseDetails) {

if(responseDetails.responseText.indexOf(isme)!==-1){

header.innerHTML += ’ (follows you)’;

}
	
}

});

}
	
}

})();

Tags: followers, greasemonkey, script, twitter