TwitterBar
Note: watch the TwitterBar section of my blog for information on updates to this extension.
TwitterBar is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox Web browser (originally written by Tony Farndon) that allows you to post to Twitter from the Firefox address bar. Just type your tweet in the address bar and click the TwitterBar icon to send it to Twitter. You can also post the URL of the page you're currently reading by clicking the TwitterBar icon with typing in the address bar.
TwitterBar\'s icon.
The latest version of TwitterBar is version 1.0.
If you're having trouble using the extension, leave a comment below or e-mail me at cfinke@gmail.com.
May 16th, 2008 at 8:17 am
hey; thanks for the great extension; very useful. Just for info: I had trouble using this at work; I ran wireshark and found the problem was that the proxy was rejecting the packet because there was no content length set. I fixed it by opening the xpi file and changing the following code from:
req.onreadystatechange = getTwitterResponse; req.open("POST","http://"+username+":"+password+"@twitter.com:80/statuses/update.xml?status="+status, true);
req.send(null)
to:
req.onreadystatechange = getTwitterResponse;
req.open("POST","http://"+username+":"+password+"@twitter.com:80/statuses/update.xml?status="+status, true);
req.setRequestHeader("Content-length", "0");
req.send(null)
this seems to work fine.
You might have a better way of fixing this; I just thought I'd let you know what worked for me
Thanks again
May 17th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
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May 25th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Nice extension. I'm new to Twitter, and was thinking "this really needs a FF extension to allow me to send a tweet without going to the Twitter webpage"; and voila!
One curiosity: For some reason, the character countdown decrements by 20 extra characters when there is a URL in the URL bar. As soon as I type the second '/' in 'http://', the char count drops from 134 to 113. I am no programmer, but when I looked in the source, I saw that 'count' is calculated two different ways, so I assume this is intentional; is it something required for sending URLs to Twitter?
Anyway, great job and thanks for the extension.
May 25th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Dan: the issue you're seeing is because TwitterBar inserts "Current Browsing:" in front of any URLs you send to Twitter. This accounts for the 20 character change.
Note: You can change the "Currently Browsing:" text by changing the value of "extensions.twitter.web" in about:config.
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Hi, When i try to post I get an error that says "could not authenticate you" but I've verified my password a ton of times, I cant find the problem :(
June 4th, 2008 at 10:59 am
[...] TwitterBar is plain funny. You can post on Twitter via the address bar. I haven’t tried the DashBlog [...]
June 13th, 2008 at 3:22 am
Hey,
very sweet! Ich hoffe, dass ich nun öfter Zwitschern werde....
Thanks for this very useful plugin!
Stefan
June 17th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
[...] in the svelte new interface that is FF3. One of the add-ons that didn’t upgrade properly was my twitterbar extension which has proved very useful, if not a little clunky over the last few months. So in search of an [...]
June 20th, 2008 at 4:34 am
For some reason my address bar height has now changed by about 10px in height, even the favicon is stretched. When I disable twitterbar it comes good again. Any thoughts as to why the look of my address bar might have changed?
Regards.
June 23rd, 2008 at 12:49 am
haha,Great idea.I saw another addon that can send tweets in the search from.
Thanks.
July 2nd, 2008 at 7:20 am
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July 3rd, 2008 at 10:23 am
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July 8th, 2008 at 11:42 am
Flock, like a Christmas Tree? It's providing me with imaginative mental pictures! Just kidding of course!
July 12th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
[...] page. Right now, I’m using Tweetdeck on Dean’s recommendation to read and post, and Twitterbar to post from Firefox. I’m trying to find a way to get my feed into Google reader, so I [...]
July 24th, 2008 at 4:43 am
Hey, just wondering if there is a shortcut to post to twitter, rather than having to click the icon? Perhaps you could add an option to customise this in later versions; it'd be nice to just be able to [alt-return].
August 1st, 2008 at 11:26 pm
HI,
I'm trying to install the twitter bar extension on the Flock Browser and it's not working. I know that it does work with this extension as many people who are doing the 30 Day Challenge with Ed Dale are using it. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Susan
August 2nd, 2008 at 3:31 am
This looks like a handy extension. Any chance that you would support specifying the website API root in the future? This would make the bar work for any laconi.ca based server (such as identi.ca), which are compatible with Twitter API. For example, for identi.ca, posting is as simple as changing [http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml] to [http://identi.ca/api/statuses/update.xml].
August 4th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
[...] Twitter Bar - Just type your tweet in the address bar and click the TwitterBar icon to send it to Twitter. You [...]
August 5th, 2008 at 1:25 am
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August 8th, 2008 at 6:01 am
Great piece of code! Nice, minimalistic and discreet! Thank you!
August 25th, 2008 at 9:27 am
clean and serene - I like it!
August 26th, 2008 at 6:38 am
[...] TwitterBar - An interesting extension for Firefox that allows you to use the browser’s address bat to also send Tweets to your account on Twitter. [...]
August 27th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
WOW! Great add-on! I especially love the currently browsing thing. :)
September 5th, 2008 at 2:14 am
Hi! Nice addon, really enjoying it!
But a thought, is it possible, when posting only a url, to change the "Currently reading: " part with the title of the page you're posting?
September 5th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
I love this add-on, but uninstalled it when I upgraded to FF 3.0.1. When I tried to reinstall it, it now says that it's not compatible with FF3. But I want it!
September 24th, 2008 at 10:57 am
this rocks!! thx from berlin
September 25th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
Okay, so I'm late to the party, but I love this addon. Easiest way to Tweet yet!
@Kristen: I am using FF 3.0.2 and it works great for me. Please try again!
September 27th, 2008 at 12:03 am
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September 29th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
I had a problem posting the below URL. TwitterBar split the URL oddly and only tinyurl'd the part up to the end of the im:.
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Barack-Obama/ss/events/pl/020807obama/im:/080924/480/77b900c2f9fa4fa298cfa43d396d4825/
resulting shortened URL is broken:
http://tinyurl.com/5y5t6r=/080924/480/77b900c2f9fa4fa298cfa43d396d4825
October 2nd, 2008 at 7:23 am
@Christopher Hitchcott: just type your message followed by the --port and press Enter :)
October 4th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
Great add-on! I know I'm going to Tweet a ton more with this thing perched atop my screen. No more excuses.
October 9th, 2008 at 7:37 am
Could you pls add identi.ca support?
October 10th, 2008 at 11:04 am
[...] TwitterBar — When you need an even faster way to tweet… simply type your tweet into the address bar of Firefox and put –post at the end. POW, you have a new post. posted by Bobby Rockers • • [...]
November 3rd, 2008 at 1:21 pm
[...] TwitterBar is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox Web browser (originally written by Tony Farndon) that allows you to post to Twitter from the Firefox address bar. Just type your tweet in the address bar and click the TwitterBar icon to send it to Twitter. You can also post the URL of the page you’re currently reading by clicking the TwitterBar icon with typing in the address bar. (plus it doesn’t hog any of your precious toolbar/statusbar space!) [...]
November 5th, 2008 at 11:23 am
Really, really nice! Thank you!
November 8th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
I cannot get it to install on FF 3.0.3, instead getting the Error 203 thing, which I've seen before with other extensions too. I tried the fix as detailed here:
Unable to install themes or extensions - Firefox - MozillaZine Knowledge Base
Delete
"extensions.ini extensions.cache extensions.rdf" and restart FF.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Unable_to_install_themes_or_extensions_-_Firefox#Corrupt_extension_files
Still no go at the AddOns page, nor with File Open the xpi downloaded from Softpedia. Any idea if it has a conflict with some other extension?
November 10th, 2008 at 12:11 am
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November 10th, 2008 at 10:30 am
I love this add-on. The only thing I don't like is that it somehow interferes with the Blank Canvas Gmail Signatures add-on. When TwitterBar is enabled, the Blank Canvas Gmail Signatures add-on doesn't work.
Any thoughts on that? Thanks again for a great add-on for us Twitter users.
Jono Martin
November 11th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Great app. Two suggestions: 1. A record/pause setting which tweets address bar on every change. 2. Tweet search bar contents for when a search is started from the search bar. Thanks.
November 11th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
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November 14th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Hi,
Wonderful extension.
How do I access Twitterbar icon from the keyboard? Would be very cool to have that!
November 16th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
[...] TwitterBar [...]
November 18th, 2008 at 2:03 am
[...] TwitterBar is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox Web browser (originally written by Tony Farndon) that allows you to post to Twitter from the Firefox address bar. Just type your tweet in the address bar and click the TwitterBar icon to send it to Twitter. You can also post the URL of the page you're currently reading by clicking the TwitterBar icon with typing in the address bar. (plus it doesn’t hog any of your precious toolbar/statusbar space!) [...]
November 24th, 2008 at 2:23 am
Hey, great extension. I am new to Twitter, but TwitterBar is really THE thing, for me.
Also, like Vick, I would love to know, how to access "Post to Twitter" icon from keyboard. If it's not avaible now, maybe, Christopher, you should consider putting it in a new version.
November 24th, 2008 at 3:04 am
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November 26th, 2008 at 3:56 am
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December 1st, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Hello. Thanks for the plugin it's very useful.
I have modified the file twitterbar.js archive for change "Currently browsing..." message.
It could be good idea if everybody could change it by a more simple way.
Best regards.
December 2nd, 2008 at 4:03 am
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December 6th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
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December 7th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
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December 12th, 2008 at 9:13 am
Where is support for TinyURL?
December 18th, 2008 at 6:33 am
Noticed an error when posting.
I had a url with spaces in it a pdf file. When i posted it didnt put in %20 to replace the spaces. The tiny url was broken.
Hope this helps. cheers
http://zebracube.wordpress.com
December 31st, 2008 at 4:56 am
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