Fed up with Twitter friends ruining the plots of her favorite TV shows, high school senior and budding software engineer Jennie Lamere took matters into her own hands.<\/p>\n
She’s finalizing an Internet browser plugin called Twivo that uses keywords inserted by the user — like a show’s title or the names of characters and actors — to intercept any plot-spoiling tweets.<\/p>\n
“I was just getting kind of annoyed how on Tuesday, when a lot of my favorite shows were on, I could never go on Twitter because it was filled with spoilers,” the 17-year-old from New Hampshire told the Los Angeles Times.<\/p>\n
The concept was original enough for Lamere to win top honors at the TVnext hackathon, or a computer programming competition, in Boston last month, where she was the only female participant.<\/p>\n
Lamere is a fan of “Dance Moms” and “Pretty Little Liars,” but like a growing number of TV viewers, she prefers to watch episodes on streaming services like Hulu after their original broadcast.<\/p>\n
Lamere, who hopes to work for Google one day, is already using a beta version of Twivo, but ironing out some kinks before releasing it for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox in a few weeks.<\/p>\n
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