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Break the Pink Heart of Tweetdeck

Lee Phillips
November 6 th , 2015

If you use Twitter at all, or suffer the wails of someone who does, you’ve heard of the abomination: the “star,” used by some to indicate approval, by other as a simple bookmark, has been replaced by a juvenile heart icon. What was called a “favorite” is now, in a slavish imitation of the Devil, a “like.”

I didn’t think I cared. But Tweedeck’s (for that is my client of choice) profusion of sickly pink hearts quickly became unbearable, even in the few minutes a day I spend looking it over.

So I dipped in to my very rudimentary JavaScript skills to put together this bookmarklet, which replaces Tweetdeck’s nasty valentines by sober checkmarks, when you need them, and by nothing, when you don’t.

NoPinkHearts ☜ Drag that to your bookmarks bar.

Just click on this bookmark when you are looking at Tweetdeck for a big improvement. At least, it works that way in Chrome. Firefox is finicky about bookmarklets, and it doesn’t work there, but you can copy the JavaScript code below and paste it into Firefox’s web console, and the magic will happen. If anyone out there can tell me how to make the bookmarklet work in Firefox, that would be a grand public service. I also welcome all improvements, suggestions, and compliments. Just email.

Here is the pastable javascript version:



var eyes = document.getElementsByTagName('i');
for (jj=0; jj<eyes.length; jj++){
var cl = eyes[jj].classList;
if (cl.contains('tweet-dogear'))
{eyes[jj].className ='';}
if (cl.contains('icon-favorite') && cl.contains('column-type-icon'))
{eyes[jj].className ='';}
if(cl.contains('icon-favorite') && cl.contains('activity-indicator'))
{eyes[jj].className ='';}
if (cl.contains('icon-favorite'))
{eyes[jj].className ='icon txt-right';eyes[jj].innerHTML = '&#10003;' };}


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