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ztratar / followr

A no-frills chrome extension to gain followers on twitter through tasteful automation.
ztratar.github.io/followr
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Can't switch accounts? #10

Closed joshdance closed 9 years ago

joshdance commented 10 years ago

Followr seems stuck on one account. Where is the ability to switch to a different Twitter account?

yogodoshi commented 10 years ago

Yup, it would be a great feature. I could try to help implementing it if you like but how should it work? I can think of 2 ways:

The easier: when you log out in the extension, it simply loses the configurations and history and you can log with another twitter account and reconfigure everything for it.

The harder: it saves the config and history locally (localStorage?) for each twitter account and checks for which account is currently logged in on Twitter everytime the extension is oppened or the user logs in on twitter.

pedrovieira commented 10 years ago

I was going to make a new Issue regarding this, but since there is this one, I'll just comment it out here. I've been using this extension and it's awesome! It really needs support for multiple twitter accounts, that's a must.

joshdance commented 10 years ago

I think whichever method is easiest to get out there. I don't think anyone will be super sad about losing their history etc. Just the ability to switch accounts is needed, however that happens.

ztratar commented 10 years ago

Hey all! Love all of your support. :]

I'm currently working on auto-unfavoriting, which has been the most requested feature. Also working on some bug fixes with crash reports. Those should be pushed today or tomorrow.

I'd love to add multi-account support, but haven't really thought through how I'd go about accomplishing it. It's a complex feature, since the favoriting occurs by using Twitter's native FE, thus switching accounts would have to actually switch accounts on twitter (and then maybe back again?)

If someone has an idea how to make this happen, I could really use some help. I have some other things I'm working on as well and can't dedicated /that/ much time to this project at the moment.

joshdance commented 10 years ago

I guess one question I have is how does followr know which account I am on in the first place? I can't remember the sign up process.

ztratar commented 10 years ago

Followr uses whatever account is currently logged in when you go to twitter.com

Since it uses the native twitter frontend, a sign up process isn't required. :]

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On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Joshua Dance notifications@github.comwrote:

I guess one question I have is how does followr know which account I am on in the first place? I can't remember the sign up process.

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yogodoshi commented 10 years ago

Sorry for the delay in my follow up guys but as Followr uses the logged in user to do its stuff, It wouldnt be possible to use multiple accounts unless he knew the combination of user and passwords of all of them.

So... I found out another way to do it veeery easily: Chrome Users (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OstTPLuaGRY) =)

ztratar commented 9 years ago

Chrome Users FTW!