# Accessing twitter.com

Like most social media sites, twitter is very graphical, and very difficult to use from edbrowse,
or with any screen reader.
However, twitter has a mobile friendly website, `mobile.twitter.com`.
This is perfect!
You don't even need javascript - so turn it off  with
nojs = twitter.com.
You can create an account (no captcha),
then enjoy most of twitter's features.
The following function logs me in quickly.

    #  twitter log in
    function+twit {
        e https://mobile.twitter.com/
    # it doesn't come up the first time, but the second time's the charm
        rf
        b
#  If the cookies remember you then there is no login screen
/email or username/+X
if(*) {
i=eklhad64
/</ i=password
/</ i*
}
5
    }

I'm not sure why I have to refresh the home page to get in.
This started June 25 2018.
It could be a session cookie that lets me in the second time, or referer.

Use this function if you want to automatically skip past Twitter commercials.

    #  twitter log in
    function+twit {
        e https://mobile.twitter.com/
        rf
        b
#  If the cookies remember you then there is no login screen
/email or username/+X
if(*) {
i=eklhad64
/</ i=password
/</ i*
}
        /{Dismiss}\$/X
        while(*) {
            p
            g$
            /{Dismiss}$/X
        }
5
    }

If you follow a link from twitter, the url typically has search data after it, like
?campaign=twitter&foo=bar&blah=3837927377377.
You can safely lop this off, especially if you are saving it as a bookmark.
Run this function after the A command.

    function :booklop {
    #  lop off ?search and append to bookmark file
    1s/\?.*/'>/
    w+ $webbook
    }

Other twitter clients exist, but they don't dovetail nicely with edbrowse,
and are beyond the scope of this article.