Favstar.fm bookmarklet

[EDIT: The original post appears below, but @timhaines updated the bookmarklet code and published it right on Favstar.fm, so the version below is outdated and less functional than this one.]

Favrd’s great. It’s put me in touch with hundreds of funny, intelligent people who primarily want to make your day better through comedy. It’s missing some features, though. [EDIT: see below...]

Favstar.fm provides one important feature that Favrd’s missing: the ability to see a person’s Hall of Fame: their all-time most-favored tweets. (example: my Favstar page) When I’m vetting a new person to see if they’re making attempts at comedy, I like to check out their best material (so far) right away by going to their Favstar page.

[EDIT: As @ucmike and @davegorum pointed out, the URL http://favrd.textism.com/person/username/top does the same thing. Sorry, @textism! I don't feel that bad, though, since that feature isn't really documented anywhere.]

This bookmarklet: Twitter -> Favstar (drag it to your bookmark toolbar) lets you conveniently switch from someone’s Twitter page to their Favstar page. @lionelster did all the heavy lifting on this. All I did was a search-and-replace on the Javascript code he wrote. Please forward all appreciation to him.

One side effect of this unceremonious bastardization of his code is that it won’t switch back to Twitter from Favstar the way his original bookmarklet will switch back to Twitter from Favrd. Sorry, I don’t know Javascript well enough to fix that (yet).

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