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It also gave me an excuse to play w\u002F the Twitter API and lots of really interesting technology (full blog post on how Proxlet is…",{"value":72,"source":49,"evidence":73},"Scratch their own itch; the maker also wanted an excuse to play with the Twitter API",[74],{"id":69,"by":11,"text":70},null,[],"unknown","launched","team",{"praise":81,"objections":108,"requests":117,"questions":143,"alternatives":152},[82,102],{"value":83,"source":84,"evidence":85},"Works well for filtering noise and makes Twitter useful again","commenter",[86,90,94,98],{"id":87,"by":88,"text":89},"2004336","arieldiaz","Finally a great way to customize Twitter and make it useful, while diving into some granular control. Awesome technology on the back end as well.",{"id":91,"by":92,"text":93},"2004454","mmanning","I've actually started using Twitter much more entirely due to this plugin. There was way too much garbage before. Nice work.",{"id":95,"by":96,"text":97},"2004546","markitechtMA","This has transformed my experience with Twitter. I'm using it in Chrome just with the regular Twitter web client and it ROCKS! Nice work guys, definitely going to tell friends…",{"id":99,"by":100,"text":101},"2004674","chobopants","Proxlet brings Twitter back to the usefulness I came to it for.",{"value":103,"source":49,"evidence":104},"Chrome extension makes setup easy",[105],{"id":106,"by":11,"text":107},"2004371","Yup, the Chrome Extension is new and what makes it exciting (again). 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