How To Tweet Using Different Browsers

We are always busy. Day in and day out, we try to juggle our time to finish as much work as we can. But there’s nothing a little time management won’t solve, right? You’d have to admit, though, that managing time isn’t all that easy to do. That’s why we find ways to make our jobs easier and less time consuming.

In line with this, you’s probably remember that I previously wrote about tools that can help you maximize the time you spend on social media work. One of the tools I mentioned was browser plugins.

There are thousands, if not more, of plugins for different browsers that will help make posting updates onto different social media sites easier. I’d like to take this opportunity to share with you a handful of Twitter plugins or extensions that you may find useful.

I’ll start with everybody’s favorite browser – Firefox (FF).

First up, we have Echofon. Formerly known as Twitterfox, this handy plugin allows you to post Twitter messages from your browser without having to visit the site anymore. Once installed, the Echofon icon sits on the bottom right corner of the browser.

Once you click on the Echofon icon, a small box will come out with all your friend’s updates. It’s divided into 3 tabs: Friends, for all your friends updates; Mentions, which will list down messages where your handle was mentioned; and Messages, which will show you direct messages which you sent or was sent to you.

You have to option to set the time interval for Echofon to refresh itself to receive new tweets. It also has pop-up functions that show updates as they get posted.

Next up, we have Google Chrome.

Well, this doesn’t really count as a plugin, but Twitlet is a bookmarklet that allows for faster update posting on Google Chrome. It’s easy enough to use – you simply click on the bookmarklet, a pop-up window appears with a field where you enter your update, click okay, and you’re good. The only downside to this is that you still need to log in to your Twitter page to see your friends’ messages.

The same thing can be said about BigTweet. You can only post updates, not view them, on this bookmarklet/plugin. The only difference is that you can easily tweet highlighted texts from the website that you’re currently on. BigTweet will then automatically shorten the URL and attach it to the highlighted text you want to post. Aside fromt hat, there’s not much of a difference from Twitlet.

Let’s move on to Opera, this time.

Opera has a nifty Twitter widget which makes tweeting easier. The Twitter Opera widget appears as a detached window which you can move around anywhere on your desktop. It has 4 tabs to show you recent updates, replies, your update archive, and messages from people in your locale. It also has a 5th tab dedicated for searching stuff on Twitter.

Twitppera is yet another great choice. It looks almost the safe as the Twitter Opera widget, only this time, Twitppera only has 4 tabs that show the recent posts, replies, favorites, and the public timeline. It may not be as comprehensive as the Twitter Opera plugin, but it works just as well.

Let’s go over to our Mac users, this time, with Safari.

The Safari140 plugin is one of two plugins I found that allows fast updates to Twitter. If you’re posting a link, it automatically uses the title of the page as the short message to be attached with the shortned URL of the site.

Another Safari plugin for Twitter is Thurly. It allows you tweet links or your own messages straight from the browser. It’s free to use if you’re only signing in with one account. Managing multiple accounts on Thurly is possible, but you’d have to pay a fee for that already.
Also, it appears that both Safari plugins are similar to the Chrome bookmarklets mentioned above as you would still have to go to your Twitter page to see other people’s updates.

Last, but not the least, we have Internet Explorer (IE).

The Cloudberry Twitter plugin, more commonly known as TweetIE, seems to be the only Twitter plugin available for IE. Once you’ve installed TweetIE, you’ll find a Tweet button on the menu bar which you can use to tweet about sites that you’re currently viewing. Again, like Chrome’s and Safari’s plugins, IE’s Twitter plugin is just for posting and now viewing updates as they come.

There you go. Twitter extensions/plugins/bookmarklets that you can use to make posting easier. Do you have any other plugin that you’d like to recommend? Do share it over at the comments section. I’d love to hear from you.