Silver Bird 2018

What is it?

This project isa fork of the original Silver Bird extension for Chrome, which aims to fix issues which prevent it from working.

Installing

1. Download it directly from GitHub

2. Navigate to chrome://extensions

3. Enable developer mode in top-right corner

4. Select "Load unpacked" and point to the folder where you've unpacked the project

Compatibility

It works on all Chrome distribution channels: Stable, Beta and Dev.

Features

• Follow your timelines and navigate through your tweets
• Notify user through icon changes whenever new tweets arrive
• Compose, reply, and RT tweets
• Read / unread tweets tracking
• OAuth authentication
• Tweets caching to avoid hitting Twitter's API rate limit (Only hit Twitter after 1 minute or when fetching uncached tweets)
• It uses Chromium autoupdate feature, so you won't be left behind

License

This project uses the very simple and permissive MIT license. Check the LICENSE file.

Credits

Original Silverbird project

Chiara De Liberato - Italian translation