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Breakdown of Twitter Profile Bookmarklet http://davebradford.com/blog/twitter-profile-bookmarklet/
javascript:
// Take the current page URL and put it in a variable called url
var url = document.URL;
// Create a new variable called tweetbotProfile and replace the mobile twitter url with the Tweetbot x-callback-url scheme
var tweetbotProfile = url.replace("https://mobile.twitter.com/","tweetbot:///user_profile/");
// Go to the new URL in tweetbotProfile
window.location = tweetbotProfile;
// To get this to work using Twitterrific just change the tweetbot:///user_profile/ to twitterrific:///profile?screen_name=
// Enjoy!
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yous commented Mar 27, 2014

I made a version opens the specific tweet that you are viewing. If you're viewing a profile, it goes to the profile. Also works with either mobile or regular twitter url. But it's a bit longer.
https://yous.be/2014/03/27/twitter-link-bookmarklet/

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