Facebook is the world’s number one social networking website with over 400 million active users worldwide. Similarly, Twitter is a leading micro-blogging social website, where users can send and read messages called as tweets, consists of upto 140 characters. Recently, Twitter has achieved yet another milestone by reaching 10 billion "tweets."
Today, people are actively using these mediums to connect socially with their friends, reaching new markets and also for promoting their business profiles. Users love to play games on the Facebook like FarmVille, Mafia Wars, and also create their company’s social profile to promote or make the followers on its home page.
However, the two websites cannot be accepted as perfect product. Users seek that Facebook should bring some updates so that people can hide FarmVille or certain status updates. Similarly, there would be demand for new features in the Twitter.
Here are some add-ons for Facebook and Twitter, which can solve common user problems. But, it should be noted that these add-ons require you to download Greasemonkey and many are not compatible with every web browser.
Add-ons for Facebook:
1. Facebook Fixer: It is one of the extensions for the Google Chrome web browser that improves the user experience on Facebook extensively. The add-on provides various features that include larger profile & album pictures, homepage customization, suggestions & "connect with friends," and calendar integration. Further, you can also sync birthdays with Google Calendar.
2. Facebook Purity: It removes various annoying quiz and app messages like "became friend with", "became a fan", "joined a group" from users’ Facebook homepage. Further, it clears all newsfeeds from the third-party games such as Mafia Wars and FarmVille. You will also have the option for blocking pictures, albums or comments on a status.
3. Unfriend Finder: It is a realtime script that allows you to know that which of your friend removes you on Facebook. It also tells that the persons who deactivate their account.
4. No Facebook Ads: It removes Facebook Flyer, Network, Bumper and other adverts from your Facebook account. The app lets users to clean their homepage.
Add-ons for Twitter:
1. TinyURL Decoder: Today, various URL shorteners save space on Twitter, but users can reach to risky/spam laden messages by clicking those URLs. However, the add-on decodes the shortened URLs on Twitter's website and shows the real URL, so that you have the choice to click or not to click.
2. Nested Twitter Replies: If you want to follow a conversation on Twitter, it will be confusing as the website offers you to view @replies in a list. However, the script systematically shows messages in a nested conversation format.
3. @Troynt's Twitter Script: This script helps users to do various tasks like Nested Replies, Custom Search Tabs, Autocomplete, Pagination, RT button, Media Embed, URL Expansion, Hash Tag Search Links, and Social Links.
4. Twitter Old Style RT Emulator: This add-on works only in Safari and Firefox and convert all retweet symbols and user pictures into RT @username.
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