Inspiration
We were inspired by the recent changes to Twitter's verification system since Elon Musk took the company over. After observing how chaotic the platform became following the inauguration of a policy that allowed anyone to pay $8/month to achieve "verified" status on Twitter, we thought it would be humorous to create an extension that could verify everybody on the website. It couldn't possibly be worse than what actually happened. (See https://reddit.com/r/RealTwitterAccounts for further accounts of this disaster.)
What it does
We created a browser extension that marks every user as verified whenever the user views twitter.com.
How we built it
We used CSS and JS to inject code into the Twitter webpage in order to add verification badges go every user account that was rendered.
Challenges we ran into
Twitter's DOM is extremely obfuscated, and we had to do a lot of hardcoding of class and ID names in order to target the page elements we wanted to modify.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We're glad that we were able to get a browser extension published on the Chrome Web Store and Firefox addons store.
What we learned
In this process, we learned a lot about how browser extensions can work and influence the user experiences of those who install them.
What's next for VerifyAll
We expect to try to publicize this extension as a means of satirizing recent events.
Built With
- css
- css3
- extension
- javascript
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