🐦🔀🗑️ Keep or Sweep for Twitter

Platforms like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram have your embarrassing old stuff that not even you know about anymore. Time to take a trip down memory lane and sweep it!

The app fetches all of a user’s Tweets from the Twitter API, randomizes, and displays them as embed one at a time to keep or sweep.

💬 Testimonials

Every Nigerian politician needs this app so they can clean up their old lies.

– @enobong, 129+ Sweeps

Before I start using this, please remember that people can change.

– @hugoroyd, 41 sweeps

Aaah where's the funny stuff!?

– @madeline_oh, 29 sweeps

had a great meal: vegetables

– @pierreozoux (back in 2009), 27 sweeps

I used this app and my cryptocoins are all still there.

Trustworthy

– @mradwanz, 21 Sweeps

ich hab nichts schlaues zu sagen, also sag ich einfach nichts

– @piperek_jen (back in 2016), 18 sweeps

Very very fun! Can you do this with other people's accounts?

– @christalib_, 15 sweeps, including an accidental one

Ooh this is very empowering!

Marie Kondo would be proud of this app

– @saadcaffeine, 13 Sweeps

Insert testimonial here

– @myamy_vicy, 12 Sweeps

What do you think about Keep or Sweep? Let us know and include your Twitter username and Sweep score!

🏗 Setup

1. Register a Twitter app.
2. Set http://localhost:8000/callback.php as a "Callback URL" in the newly registered application.
3. Copy .env.template to .env.
4. In .env, set the CONSUMER_KEY and CONSUMER_SECRET from your Twitter app.
5. In a terminal, run composer install to install the dependencies.
6. Then run ./dev.sh to start the server.
7. Visit http://localhost:8000 in a browser.

🚦 Fixes and features

🐛 Issues happening often

• Embedded Tweets sometimes exceed viewport: Could use Javascript and then CSS with transform: scale(0.5, 0.5); based on how much larger than the viewport the Tweet is. Only seems to have issues with the animation for some reason.
• People don’t know their passwords. We could possibly have a fallback where you just put in your username, and swept Tweets are added onto a list you could mail to yourself at the end.

📑 Enhancements

• Unclear that sweep really deletes: Show a notice on first sweep only, that it will remove, and unretweet/unfavorite.
• People in the audience have difficulty reading the Tweets: Needs a bigger screen for presentation, external monitor or even projector. Vertical monitor would be perfect for display of Tweet embed.
• Unclear when Tweets are Retweets: Needs a better indicator for Retweets.
• Sweeping could be more satisfying: Sound effects for spree sweeps (m-m-m-MONSTER SWEEP!) like in Unreal Tournament.
• Possibly implement showing favorited Tweets too, with favorites/list and favorites/destroy. Needs additional indicator then.
• Ability to undo last action would be nice. But in the case of sweeping we then need to hold off on actual deletion until the next action.

📜 Advanced stuff and details

• When you play an embedded video, the cursor focus gets lost and the next click on a button does not react: Automatically unfocus after click inside Tweet?
• Currently white screen when Twitter can’t be reached, instead show note about it (maybe also wifi is slow).
• Could also display people you are following, to unfollow. However it’s a level above (kind of a "collection" and not a single element) and thus there’s less context there.
• Super like / Love: Additional button which retweets and likes the Tweet, even if it is your own.
• Global high score table of sweep counter → maybe just Tweet from @keeporsweep with messages like "Yeah! @username swept 12 Tweets using http://keeporsweep.net 👏"
• Keep or Sweep x Wahl-o-mat: Show anonymized tweets of politicians, and show a result screen of parties you most agreed with.

❤ Thanks

💻 Based on the great TwitterOAuth PHP library and its demo site – thanks to Abraham Williams! 🎉

🐦 Using the official Twitter embedded Tweets, so it shows conversation as well as count of replies & likes for context.

📢 Swish sounds by Pogotron. Smash sounds by tezzza, mgamabile & Agaxly.