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 in the address bar.
Did you know that you can search Twitter and the social Web directly from TwitterBar? Just type your search and then type --search:
Or, you can search by clicking the magenta icon that appears when you hover over the Twitter icon in the address bar:
If you're having trouble with the extension or would like to see a new feature added, you can:
- Contact me (@cfinke) on Twitter
- Fill out a this bug report form. (If you're requesting a new feature, just disregard any text about reproducing a bug.)
- or e-mail me at cfinke@gmail.com.
Christopher Finke is a software engineer. He is available for birthday parties and bar mitzvahs. 
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
[...] Today I decided that Twitter is indeed something I want to use more often in the future. As I was looking around AMO, I found the TwitterBar extension by Chris Finkle. [...]
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
[...] Twitter Bar – Twitter works because it is plain and simple. This add-on extends the twitter mantra to [...]
July 3rd, 2008 at 10:23 am
[...] steverubel Summize now shows where Twitter TinyURLs go http://flickr.com/photos/st…; 04:31 PM June 30, 2008 from TwitterBar [...]
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
[...] TwitterBar - This plugin would let you send tweets from your firefox address bar. [...]
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
[...] TwitterBar - L’estensione firefox interessante l’uso barra degli indirizzi per inviare messaggi a Twitter il tuo account. [...]
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
[...] TwitterBar [...]
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
[...] Firefox Erweiterung für Twitter: http://www.chrisfinke.com/addons/twitterbar/ [...]
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
[...] ???? [...]
November 26th, 2008 at 3:56 am
[...] Otro que ha muerto: Outlook ha muerto, llega Pelotonics http://nocache.elconfidenci…; 7:43 PM Nov 22nd from TwitterBar [...]
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
[...] Browsing: http://www.chrisfinke.com/addons/twitterbar/ [...]
December 6th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
[...] williscreative Listen OTM: public domain preserves creative “raw material of the future” http://www.onthemedia.org/t…; about 11 hours ago from TwitterBar [...]
December 7th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
[...] web (still the most popular, simple to use) mobileweb twitterrific (popular) twitterfeed (popular) TweetDeck (popular) twhirl FriendFeed TweetMyBlog Ping.fm Txt EventBox TwitPic Twitter Tools TwitterBar [...]
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
[...] TwitterBar - 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 Twit [...]
January 12th, 2009 at 2:51 am
[...] TwitterBar - 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 Twit [...]
January 15th, 2009 at 7:26 am
The Options dialog box appears, but doesn't show the "OK" button. What am I missing?
Thanks.
January 19th, 2009 at 3:08 am
[...] ooops, one more try at this, http://www.hennaforhair.com…; 10:17 PM Dec 25th, 2008 from TwitterBar in reply to ClosetedTranny Dee_pntx - @ClosetedTranny Henna is a natural hair color that will [...]
January 22nd, 2009 at 6:01 pm
This addon posts without asking for confirmation. That should be fixed because it's too easy to post without intention.
January 22nd, 2009 at 6:47 pm
Chris - love twitterbar!
One question - is it possible to configure to use twurl rather than tinyurl as the URL shortening service. I'd like to take advantage of the ability of twurl to track clicks.
Ian
January 23rd, 2009 at 10:00 am
I wrote you already by mail but for everyone who doesn't want for a new release I say it here too:
I extended the add-on so that the title of a page is added to the tweet. if you're interested you can download it here http://rogerpfaff.de/en/content/firefox-twitterbar-extension-hack-update
regards
roger
January 29th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
[...] TwitterBar - Type your tweets in the address bar and press the icon at the end to send them. Also allows you to easily tweet about the page you are currently looking at by leaving it in the address bar when you type out your message. [...]
January 30th, 2009 at 2:13 am
[...] "TwitterBar , Friendbar, Twitter Line, Twitter StatusBar and Twitter Toolbar " will make you able to use twitter from toolbar/statusbar. [...]
January 30th, 2009 at 11:05 am
[...] TwitterBar - Type your tweets in the address bar and press the icon at the end to send them. Also allows you to easily tweet about the page you are currently looking at by leaving it in the address bar when you type out your message. [...]
January 30th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
[...] TwitterBar - Type your tweets in the address bar and press the icon at the end to send them. Also allows you to easily tweet about the page you are currently looking at by leaving it in the address bar when you type out your message. [...]
January 31st, 2009 at 1:34 am
[...] TwitterBar - Type your tweets in the address bar and press the icon at the end to send them. Also allows you to easily tweet about the page you are currently looking at by leaving it in the address bar when you type out your message. [...]
February 2nd, 2009 at 9:01 am
[...] TwitterBar: mi favorito personal; teclea tus tweets directo en la barra de dirección y presiona el botón al final de la barra para publicar tu mensaje. También te permite publicar un tweet de la página que estás visitando actualmente. [...]
February 4th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
Doesn't seem to work with Firefox 3.0.6?
February 6th, 2009 at 6:56 am
My post button has disappeared with 3.0.6. any ideas?
February 13th, 2009 at 3:44 am
Nice extension, unfortunately for me, the "--post" shortcut is short-circuited by one of my "must-have" extensions - SuperDragAndGo (version 0.2.6.3-directional) Weird.
February 14th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Any way we can use the full url of the site we are posting? and not use the tinyurl?
February 17th, 2009 at 9:45 am
[...] TwitterBar [...]
February 17th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
where is it possible to find this hack?
http://rogerpfaff.de/en/content/firefox-twitterbar-extension-hack-update
It does not seem to be on the web page and would be extremely useful!!
February 17th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
my Post button has disappeared on FF306.
February 18th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
How about adding bit.ly or is.gd support for auto-shortening URLS?
February 21st, 2009 at 6:39 pm
[...] TwitterBar Type your tweets in the address bar and press the icon at the end to send them. Also allows you to easily tweet about the page you are currently looking at by leaving it in the address bar when you type out your message. [...]
February 25th, 2009 at 12:08 am
[...] http://www.chrisfinke.com/addons/twitterbar/ [...]
March 1st, 2009 at 10:38 am
[...] Super schicke Lösung! Tweets werden in der Adresszeile des Browser geschrieben und mittels einem speziellen Button versendet. Klasse auch das die noch freien Zeichen runtergezählt und angezeigt werden! Einer meiner Favoriten. Weblink [...]
March 6th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
[...] Me: Things you only hear in a Second Life meeting: "I dropped my hair!" "Sorry for sitting on you." "Wait, I accidentally took off my clothes."about 10 hours ago from TwitterBar [...]
March 8th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
[...] Tinerii si investitiile la bursa: http://tinyurl.com/bw9emk12:21 AM Feb 20th from TwitterBar [...]
March 10th, 2009 at 1:39 am
[...] TwitterBar - Type your tweets in the address bar and press the icon at the end to send them. Also allows you to easily tweet about the page you are currently looking at by leaving it in the address bar when you type out your message. [...]
March 13th, 2009 at 4:34 am
[...] When I am on, I can’t stop using Twitter. I usually post the most interesting article using Tweet Bar, and I take time to respond to others and really participate in the Twitter community. But [...]
March 13th, 2009 at 8:37 am
giving your app a whirl today...
did 3 as of this writing and its so far okay...
will get back to ya--- if I feel its not up to stuff...
peace...greggace
March 19th, 2009 at 1:05 am
[...] TwitterBar [...]
March 19th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
[...] has been included since the last few alphas and I have been running it ever since Alpha 1 with the TwitterBar [...]
March 23rd, 2009 at 11:35 am
Could you produce a similar extention using the Remember the Milk api.
I love the simplicity of your application but i cant get RTM and Twitter working together.
March 23rd, 2009 at 2:21 pm
[...] favorite tool for posting to Twitter from your Firefox address bar (TwitterBar) has been updated to version 2.0. Changes in this version [...]
March 23rd, 2009 at 6:49 pm
Thanks for maintaining this. It's a superb FF addon. So much easier than having to cut'n'paste URLs from FF into Tweetdeck to be able to tweet them.
March 24th, 2009 at 5:05 am
Great work, use this all the time. Thanks.
March 24th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
[...] TwitterBar TwitterBar allows you to post to Twitter from the Firefox address bar. [...]
March 24th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
[...] video on Current called Twouble with Twitters. OAuth appears in the API Wiki and the Firefox addon TwitterBar and Twitter directory WeFollow already use it. Twitter changed the title for the personal pages [...]
March 26th, 2009 at 10:15 am
It keeps on requiring authorisation. I think that that is taking more than a second. :I
March 26th, 2009 at 10:54 am
[...] TwitterBar [...]
March 27th, 2009 at 2:40 am
Is there a way I can prevent TwitterBar from asking permission everytime I reboot & start Firefox? It's really distracting..
Thanks
Phil
March 27th, 2009 at 4:06 am
Thanks - TwitterBar is for me, by far, easiest way for me to post to twitter.
I use it along with scripts I've written in AutoIt. If you could build in a URL-shortener it would be outstanding.
March 27th, 2009 at 10:52 am
The new Auth system is broke, EVERY TIME I try to tweet it ask me to authorize, I do and it doesn't remember. I've tried this on both my mac and windows systems. Great/useful tool before you added Oauth.
March 27th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Thanks for creating TwitterBar - I find it indispensable. I just installed the new version, and I see that you have migrated from tinyurl to is.gd. Fine. But seeing that change made me wonder: can you hook up bit.ly instead? bit.ly lets you track the clicks on your links, which is definitely worth something to me.
Thanks and keep up the good work.
- Mike
March 29th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
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March 30th, 2009 at 11:20 am
I'm having a the authorization problem too. It continually asks me to reauthorize twitterbar to use my account. Is there a way to solve this? Sorry if I am missing something obvious.
March 30th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
[...] TwitterBar [...]
March 30th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
[...] TwitterBar [...]
April 2nd, 2009 at 2:07 am
This is a great extension. I use it a lot to post links and updates for my students to follow.
April 2nd, 2009 at 2:59 am
I didn't read all comments above, maybe i'll repeat somebodies suggestion, but i didn't see this feature in the current version.
I think its a good idea to have an option when submitting the tweet to include the TITLE tag of the web page (link) that we submit.
Thanks
April 2nd, 2009 at 4:10 am
i will return to old version because the last have problem with some thing : autho error
April 2nd, 2009 at 9:21 am
Bug report:
the "before url" in options dialog cant input chinese or japanese, maybe it doesnt support utf8.
Some wish:
let me choose and change some shortcut key to post.
thanks.
April 3rd, 2009 at 9:46 am
Thanks for the Twitterbar update. Great ff addon!
April 3rd, 2009 at 9:59 am
[...] TwitterBar [...]
April 3rd, 2009 at 2:53 pm
[...] addons para Firefox: twitterfox, TwitterBar, Power [...]
April 3rd, 2009 at 7:00 pm
I Agree! I think its a good idea to have an option when submitting the tweet to include the TITLE tag of the web page (link) that we submit. see http://www.myce101.com
thanks
Julius
http://www.julrides.com
April 5th, 2009 at 9:44 am
I have Firefox 3.0.7, i gives error:
"TwitterBar encountered an error (401) "
I think its because , i didnt sign in..
How to sign in to my account through TwitterBar.
When i click "Reset Authorization Settings" in options. nothing happens..
April 5th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
[...] TwitterBar [...]
April 7th, 2009 at 5:59 am
I am having a lot of trouble with this add on since the 'upgrade' - keeps requiring reauthorisation and stalls regularly. Is it possible to revert to the previous version. Else will have to be uninstalled - also crashes Firefox occasionally which is strange.
Roy
April 7th, 2009 at 11:50 am
Thanks much! I enjoy Twitterbar a lot. I have also had trouble with authenticating, though. I've found that if I log into twitter first, then install the add-on, the authentication works fine.
I'd also like to second the option to turn off URL shortening.
April 8th, 2009 at 4:15 am
Trying...
April 8th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Since v 2.x I can't use twitterbar on my two pcs anmore.. up to that point of time I had it installed on my laptop and my office pc. however somehow it only works now on one computer at a time. so i have to authorize the pc i use every single time again and again.. that sucks. is there any other solution for this?
April 8th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
[...] Twitter Bar [...]
April 8th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
[...] #Firefox Twitter Add-On - http://www.chrisfinke.com/addons/twitterbar/ [...]
April 9th, 2009 at 4:04 am
error message "TwitterBar encountered an error (401):" when I want to allow twitter profile access ... any idea?
April 9th, 2009 at 11:48 am
[...] TwitterBar [...]
April 9th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Hey. Great idea. I am trying to use it and this is the message that keeps coming up:
Invalid / expired Token
/statuses/update.xml
what I am doing wrong - you can email me.
April 9th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
The "Invalid / expired Token" error was due to a combination of a bug in TwitterBar and an API change that Twitter made. You can download an update to TwitterBar that fixes the bug at http://is.gd/rIsP or you can wait for Mozilla to approve the update and have Firefox download it automatically, although this may take a couple of days.
April 11th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Hi,
I regularly use TwitterBar but with the newest update the support for Icelandic letters (æ, ö, á, í, etc) is gone. Any chance it can be fixed?
Best,
Henning
April 11th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
[...] changed today. I was sifting through the Add-ons available for Firefox and came across TwitterBar. TwitterBar allows you to update Twitter via your address bar. Simply type in the update and [...]
April 11th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
würde gern mehr über Twitter erfahren, wer hilft mir?
April 12th, 2009 at 11:24 am
I am trying to enter into twitter but when trying to register, I am told that my user name is invalid! Please help!! xXx P.S. I am not really computer literate! xXx
April 13th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
[...] addons para Firefox: twitterfox, TwitterBar, Power [...]
April 14th, 2009 at 8:37 am
Thanks for the 2.1.2 update it fixes the token error temporarily for me, but when I get twitterbar setup on one machine then get home and use my laptop, I get the token error again. Even though I have 2.1.2 installed. Is there something I can do?
April 14th, 2009 at 10:56 am
I want to delete Twitterbar. Any ideas on how to do this?
April 14th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
ey! love this add-on! great work!
April 15th, 2009 at 7:35 am
[...] Addon-Version: 2.1.2 Firefox-Version: 2.0 – 3.5b4pre Herausgeber: Christopher Finke Homepage: Zur Homepage Download: Erweiterung zu Firefox hinzufügen Infos bei Mozilla.org: Weitere Informationen [...]
April 15th, 2009 at 11:56 am
Howdy Chris,
TwitterBar ROCKS. I've used it a for quite while now and the time you've spent on it is so awesome. I noticed that after I upgraded, long URLs are automatically shortened using is.gd. I'm a heavy user of bit.ly for it's analytics (which also rock) and am wondering if there is a way to either turn *off* the is.gd shortening service OR, even better, have it use bit.ly instead (with my account).
I'd be happy to provide any feedback, testing on teh awesome next version of TwitterBar
-m
April 15th, 2009 at 10:58 pm
I've been using Twitthat! for a while now but find Twitterbar a much nicer integration & feels cleaner. Plus it also takes up one less space on my Bookmark Toolbar :)
April 21st, 2009 at 3:26 am
[...] You mean, this Twitter Bar? http://chrisfinke.com/addons/twitterbar in reply to stephenkruiser [...]
April 21st, 2009 at 8:08 am
sorry but version 2.1.2 is still giving me the problem. It works under OSX but on my vista64 laptop it says it's unauthorized. yes I reinstalled it twice it still will not work. and yes it IS authorized.. my OSX machine at work is operating perfectly.
April 23rd, 2009 at 4:22 pm
[...] that added some new buttons to the Twitter site, thanks for that. I have also just uninstalled the TwitterBar since accidental clicks lead to strange tweets. Apparently, TwitterBar was designed for the [...]
April 26th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
[...] TwitterBar - Type your tweets in the address bar and press the icon at the end to send them. Also allows you to easily tweet about the page you are currently looking at by leaving it in the address bar when you type out your message. [...]
April 27th, 2009 at 12:22 am
For someone who asked above, keyboard lovers can just type --post in the address bar after their tweet to send it. Note that tweet is posted AS SOON AS you type in --post i.e. no need to press enter.
April 27th, 2009 at 12:23 am
Read -post as --post in the above post.
April 27th, 2009 at 12:24 am
Just a quick clarification, there are TWO hyphens required before post. For some reason, the two hyphens appear like a single long hyphen in posts above.
April 27th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
I like it but it removes some icons (& therefore their funnctionality) from the address bar, namely the Xmarks icon & the RSS icon for the Newsgator add-on.
That's a deal-breaker for me.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:54 am
so this is just like Twitlet huh.......................
i use now 3 types or 3rd party Twitter app..the amazing TweetDeck, Twitlet (in my Google Chrome) and now Twitbar...(in Firefox)
May 3rd, 2009 at 7:49 am
version 2.1.2 is still giving me the problem. It works under sabayon and firefox 3.0.8 but i can reach the authorization from twitter or wathever... yes I reinstalled it twice it still will not work. and also i reset the autorization from twitter... but it's not working...
:(
May 10th, 2009 at 10:03 am
do not want to install twitter
May 11th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
[...] TwitterBar is a supremely useful Firefox add-on that lets you post tweets from your browser’s address bar, without having to go to the Twitter website. Another Firefox add-on, Shareaholic, is an easy way to share links, not only to Twitter but social bookmarking sites like Mixx, Delicious andStumbleUpon. [...]
May 14th, 2009 at 7:00 am
every useful tool, however is there a short cut key to post twit without having to use the mouse to hover on the icon and click to post?
May 14th, 2009 at 9:20 pm
Gary: Just type --post at the end (don't press enter), and it will post.
May 15th, 2009 at 3:43 am
Great idea, but the one-click tweet isn't usable without the ability to dynamically include the title of the url you're tweeting. Why would anyone reading that tweet click on a shortened url with no description? Failsauce.
May 15th, 2009 at 3:44 am
Great idea, but the one-click tweet isn’t usable without the ability to dynamically include the title of the url you’re tweeting. Why would anyone reading that tweet click on a shortened url with no description? Failsauce.
May 18th, 2009 at 6:24 am
[...] TwitterBar – allows you to post to Twitter from Firefox’s address bar. A small Twitter icon sits to the right of your address bar; clicking on it will post your tweet, and you can hover your mouse over it to see how many characters you have left. [...]
May 18th, 2009 at 9:37 am
great extension, I just got into twitter and will be using this often. Thanks!
May 20th, 2009 at 10:25 am
comment supprimer cette fenêtre qui me demande un mot de passe que je ne connais pas !
May 20th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
it will be good a easy way to switch accounts
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Wow! Really useful. Although i wanna use another url shortern thing, can i do that? It looks like I can't. Now i'm updating more on twitter because of tweetbar
May 23rd, 2009 at 5:00 am
every useful tool, however is there a short cut key to post twit without having to use the mouse to hover on the icon and click to post?
May 24th, 2009 at 2:33 am
Twitterbar used to work for me, but after an update it no longer will connect. Whenever I try to post I get an error box that says:
Twitter responded with an error (401):
Failed to validate oauth signature or token
I am running FF 3.1.10. I have uninstalled and reinstalled Twitterbar. I revoked and un-revoked access to Twitterbar on the Twitter site. Anyone have suggestions on how to get it to post?
Thanks!
May 27th, 2009 at 8:21 am
Just testing our Twitter. Newbie Twitterer :)
May 28th, 2009 at 12:53 am
An update on comment 146. Twitterbar works fine from the browser on my laptop, but not from the browser on my desktop. Is there some kind of problem trying to access twitter from 2 different computers via Twitterbar? Thanks!
May 28th, 2009 at 4:44 am
Thanks for this extension. It's the best UI for entering tweets as far as I'm concerned.
I had some issues with authentication after recent extension upgrades. It was complaining about invalid oauth token. Resetting the authentication from the preferences didn't help (despite the oauth roundtrip it triggers) however the following did fix things for me:
1 go to about:config
2 type twitter in the search field
3 note that the twitter bar oauth token setting is NOT set, despite several oauth roundtrips to twitter
4 right click and reset all the twitterbar entries (empties them I assume)
5 restart browser, it will ask to authenticate and this time actually stores the token
Done!
A second minor bug: the spinning icon spins forever after failed authentication even though it is no longer waiting for a response from the server.
May 28th, 2009 at 8:48 am
Great, thanks for this program, I love how it's lightweight. Ok it's no TweetDeck, but then again, sometimes I just want to post a tweet and not have to load up that hog of a program and get all my updates from elsewhere. So twitter bar does the job. Love it - Thanks. Ollie - Coolest geek on the net!
May 28th, 2009 at 9:03 am
What a great extension. I hooked this up to my Twitter account and hooked my Twitter up to my Facebook account, and now I'm updating both at once.
-Thanks.
May 30th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
How about instead of that predefined message that you can setup when you send urls, you add the title of the web page?
For example, I'm visiting this site http://www.chrisfinke.com/addons/twitterbar/ and I press the button, then it posts on twitter as:
I'm checking out : Twitterbar ( http://www.chrisfinke.com/addons/twitterbar/ )
( )
June 2nd, 2009 at 4:49 am
[...] TwitterBar - ????????? [...]
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:00 am
Love the app. Having a couple issues though. On my wife's computer, it continually says it can't do the oauth thing. I have tried some of the tricks I have read around here, but to no avail. It worked fine on my computer. Incidentally, we are both using the latest macs with the latest OS, for what it's worth.
Second, when the window pops up asking if I want the social search thing, I hit cancel, thinking that this is referring to the magenta colored box in my url bar. If it is, I don't need that and don't want any more things in that bar than is necessary. But regardless, it still shows up. Thoughts?
So, until I can get those two things settled, I am back to version 1. I preferred the simple dot idea too - doesn't have to be a grey dot or anything, but I would like something more generic.
And for those who think this app is too simple, that's exactly why I love it so much. I don't want to open up two or more apps to tweet.
Oh ya, I would also prefer a tiny url creator with stats, as others have mentioned.
Keep it up! Great add on.
June 3rd, 2009 at 6:46 am
cool stuff though, BIG UPS!!!
June 4th, 2009 at 9:16 am
[...] TwitterBar - Type your tweets in the address bar and press the icon at the end to send them. Also allows you to easily tweet about the page you are currently looking at by leaving it in the address bar when you type out your message. [...]
June 4th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
To George, comment 153, I have the same problem. Can't figure out what's the problem, so I haven't tested this add-on yet.
June 9th, 2009 at 7:15 am
Lazy people LOVE your add on. I am a lazy person. I LOVE Your Add on! Because of research and those following me on Twitter, I have to pass on vital information we come across. Simply using the bar means I do not have to constantly log into my page when on the Net. One of the best add ons Firefox was lucky to get! Thanks for the hard work.
June 11th, 2009 at 11:13 am
thanks for the great plugin, which makes my life more easy.:)
June 12th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Thanks for an excellent, lightweight, easy to use extension. TwitterBar is now my primary way to post quick notes or Web pages.
I'm a bit disappointed that you moved from is.gd to .tk (Tweak) for URL shortening. I realize you're saving ~3 characters, but I've been using is.gd for a very long time and prefer it over all the other shortening services. Perhaps in a future release, you'd consider making this a configurable option?
June 12th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
Hi, I don't know if what I'm going to say is doable, but I had and idea you may like.
When you click the 'Post to twitter' button, instead of a confirmation, could you put a space to write, so you can personalise each tweet??
Just an idea ;)
June 17th, 2009 at 12:39 am
[...] TwitterBar - Damit kann man direkt aus der Adressleiste des Firefox heraus twittern. Sinnvoll dann, wenn man nur Output erzeugen möchte, nicht aber so sehr anderen folgen möchte. [...]
June 20th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
[...] update my online status via Twitterbar, sometimes via the Web, sometimes via TweetDeck. Any of these 3 channels will update both my [...]
June 21st, 2009 at 8:20 pm
Yeah - I am after something like Wisdoom too. Like, when you post is there a variable that could be used for the (shruken) URL.
e.g. "Reading and interest post about the excellent TwitterBar.. %%"
When %% would be swapped out with the URL.
Often the page title ($$) is not that great a summary of the page content.
June 22nd, 2009 at 3:20 pm
[...] TwitterBar – Type your tweets in the address bar and press the icon at the end to send them. Also allows [...]
June 22nd, 2009 at 11:36 pm
Just to answer my own question posted above, and perhaps yours @wisdoom
All you have to do to post a URL (shortened) with a personal message is type your message in front of the URL, leaving the URL in place. Click post and on twitter you will see:
"My personal message http://12345.tk"
June 23rd, 2009 at 12:02 pm
[...] TwitterBar Firefox? ????? ?? ??? ???? ? ??? –post?? ??? [...]
June 24th, 2009 at 11:19 am
Great plugin! I just want to know why you changed the short url handler? Those %¤#&@.tk takes forever to load, if they load at all. I've been using Twitterbar for some time, and I haven't noticed this problem before. Please change it back! :)
June 24th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
[...] can download the Twitterbar add-on for Firefox. You can visit the Official Homepage of Twitterbar if you have any doubts or [...]
June 30th, 2009 at 11:11 am
I've been using Twitterbar for months with no problem and love it. I installed some update to Firefox last week and the post icon disappeared from my browser address bar. I've tried uninstalling, reinstalling it and disabling my other add-ons to determine the problem and nothing. I'm running Windows Vista and Firefox 3.0.11. Any ideas on how to fix it?
June 30th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Why is Twitterbar now showing an Asian Favicon when sites do not provide one of their own now?
July 5th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
[...] to integrate ‘tweeting feature’ to ScribeFire, as there already exists another tool TwitterBar, which is one of his own other [...]
July 6th, 2009 at 4:55 am
Twitter bar is one of my all time favourite plugins! Makes it so much easier. Only drawback is that I get all confused using computers and browsers where it's not installed as i take it for granted in all my work locations ;-)
July 8th, 2009 at 12:53 am
Thanks for the addon , but i think if it's to add the current page title on the default tweet,it's better.
July 9th, 2009 at 3:44 am
My twitterbar is not working. (re-installed, no help)
It says
I wonder if this is because I changed the firefox address bar search default setting last week... (running with windows XP and FF 3.5)
any advice? thanks in advance.
July 10th, 2009 at 8:54 am
Great extension. Must say.I was not posting on twitter just because it was too much to post a tweet especially when you are on slow connection. But after getting this extension all my tweets are from TwitterBar. Lot more add-ons are released to post directly from firefox, but this one is my fav. till date.
July 12th, 2009 at 5:32 am
Hi
Great tool!! Is it possible to managed 2 twitter account with this tool. I like to switch between the two accounts....
Thx
July 14th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
[...] Try it or Visit Homepage [...]
July 15th, 2009 at 11:34 am
[...] been to Landmark in forum mall last night. Bought some books on C++ & PHP. The store has almost all kind of books/DVDs/Gadgets/articles etc11:26 PM Jun 28th from TwitterBar [...]
July 15th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
[...] TwitterBar [...]
July 15th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
as 177 Rachel sais: with FF 3.5 Twitterbar post icon disappeared and I have done all thats possible to fix it.
Me too running Vista.
I´m soooo sad...
help me, mr tweetbar :)
July 17th, 2009 at 11:22 am
Hey Chris, great tool.
I have recently changed my Twitter name and now when I post via TB it is not posting to my Twitter account.
Is there a way to change the name on TB?
Thanks!
July 17th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
The new Auth system is broke, EVERY TIME I try to tweet it ask me to authorize, I do and it doesn't remember. I've tried this on both my mac and windows systems. Great/useful tool before you added Oauth.
July 18th, 2009 at 8:18 am
Hi,
I use Firefox 3.5.1 but I receive the error 401. What should i do? I also couldn't use the "Reset Authorization Setting"
Help me plz
July 20th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
TwitterBar encountered an error (401):
/oauth/access_token
Invalid / expired Token
Love the app but got this error.
Running on vista.
Thanks!
July 21st, 2009 at 11:12 am
Great handy tool. Thanks so much. FYI, I hid the icon in the address bar and then brought it back and now it sits on the left of the address. :/ Fix this if you can.
I have two ideas to share as well. Consider showing the icon only when typing in the address bar. Also, as mentioned in an earlier post, consider creating a shortcut key instead of --post. Like ALT enter. My fingers are twitching to have this.
July 23rd, 2009 at 1:31 am
What do I need to do in order to authorize the Twitter Bar to access my twitter account in order to be able to post??
Please let me know ASAP.
Thanks.
July 23rd, 2009 at 8:44 pm
Great extension; simple
July 24th, 2009 at 8:05 am
Hi,
I have firefox 3.5.1 too but I can't running Twitterbar. I've tryed to download and install it 4-5-6 times but nothing happened... Restarted firefox every time and already my PC.
Can somebody help me?
Thanks in advance,
R
July 24th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
[...] from the web. But now…. @probedms just showed me a wonderful extension for Firefox called Twitterbar and I think I’m in [...]
July 25th, 2009 at 6:24 am
[...] El plugin (TwitterBar 2.6) se puede descargar desde acá, o si no visitando el sitio Oficial. [...]
July 26th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
I can post a Tweet or a URL but cannot do the two together. Maybe I am missing something?
July 27th, 2009 at 1:21 am
Error in --options command
Error de lectura XML: entidad no definida
Ubicación: chrome://twitterbar/content/optionsDialog.xul
Número de línea 28, columna 3:
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July 27th, 2009 at 3:58 am
Thanks for this lovely addon. I currently use twitterfox which sits on the status bar, and think it's a good idea to try yours and see how they compare.
Thanks again for sharing :)
July 29th, 2009 at 10:17 am
Let me just say that I love this add-on. It has become the de facto manner by which I bookmark interesting web sites. One small annoyance though...whenever I post to Twitter, usually by clicking the address bar (+) icon, a new Firefox tab automatically opens up to show me the tweet at my Twitter home page. Is there a way to suppress this from happening? All I really want to do most of the time is tweet away and not get distracted/interrupted.
July 31st, 2009 at 9:32 am
[...] TwitterBar Diese Erweiterung wird ausschließlich über die Adresszeile bedient. Somit nimmt die Extension keinen unnötigen Platz weg. TwitterBar wurde bisher über 500.000 mal heruntergeladen. [...]
August 1st, 2009 at 2:10 am
Hey Chris,
thank you very much for this addon. I am new to twitter and I love ur addon right from the start!!
Keep on the good work!
Sebastian
August 1st, 2009 at 10:04 am
Larry: In the TwitterBar options (type --options in the address bar), there is a checkbox to turn that feature off.
August 3rd, 2009 at 10:30 am
The new Auth system is broke, EVERY TIME I try to tweet it ask me to authorize, I do and it doesn't remember.Thank you..
August 7th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Are you planning of making one for Safari?
August 11th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
#196 Randall. I have firefox 3.5.2 and initially thought that the addon could not be found. It is in the address bar. You'll see the blue twitter icon, just click that and you would be required to authorize postings to you twitter account- just once. Then write your tweet and click the tweeter icon and you are done.
Thanks Chris for an awesome tool!
August 13th, 2009 at 4:08 am
Hi everyone,
Great add-on...but a question...
I use this add-on to publish both on Twitter& Facebook.
The question is :
Is it possible to post with my twitter-bar on my Facebook profile AND on the Fan page I manage ???
Maybe with 2 different twitter bar ???
Thanks a lot,
Best Regards,
Control Tower
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Control-Tower/15081197465
August 14th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
I added Twitter and every time it tells me that I need to authorize, but I can't seem to figure out how to do that...
Please advise....
August 17th, 2009 at 1:41 am
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August 18th, 2009 at 6:21 am
[...] TwitterBar – Type your tweets in the address bar and press the icon at the end to send them. Also allows you to easily tweet about the page you are currently looking at by leaving it in the address bar when you type out your message. [...]
August 19th, 2009 at 3:46 am
[...] TwitterBar (http://www.chrisfinke.com/addons/twitterbar/) Memungkinkan anda melakukan post pada twitter anda melalui Firefox address [...]
August 22nd, 2009 at 6:16 am
[...] TwitterBar Diese Erweiterung wird ausschließlich über die Adresszeile bedient. Somit nimmt die Extension keinen unnötigen Platz weg. TwitterBar wurde bisher über 500.000 mal heruntergeladen. [...]
August 24th, 2009 at 4:30 am
Hey! it's not working on 3.5.2 401 error invalid token
August 25th, 2009 at 8:02 am
I use this add-on to publish both on Twitter& Facebook.
August 27th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
Hey where is Chrisdog93?
August 28th, 2009 at 8:25 am
as 177 Rachel sais: with FF 3.5 Twitterbar post icon disappeared and I have done all thats possible to fix it.
Me too running Vista.
August 29th, 2009 at 9:32 am
yes, it doesnt work on my 3.5.2 ,too ...error 401 :(
August 30th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
oi é a primeira ves que eu entro no twitter, ainda não sei como funciona, espero que eu apreendo logo
August 31st, 2009 at 5:30 am
Twitterbar post icon disappeared and I have done all thats possible to fix it.
Me too running Vista.
September 1st, 2009 at 6:22 am
Thank you for Twitterbar ! I like it. Thank's again !!!
September 2nd, 2009 at 9:30 am
I added Twitter and every time.
THANK FOR INFORMATION
September 6th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
Great, love it...Mark
September 12th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
I love it. I just recently found out how much better firefox is as opposed to IE. And then I received an added surprise with all the add-on features that are available. Great work. Thanks so much
September 15th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Pretty cool...
September 18th, 2009 at 3:55 am
i love twittor.. nice .. thanks
September 18th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
[...] TwitterBar is a supremely useful Firefox add-on that lets you post tweets from your browser’s address bar, without having to go to the Twitter website. Another Firefox add-on, Shareaholic, is an easy way to share links, not only to Twitter but social bookmarking sites like Mixx, Delicious and StumbleUpon. [...]
September 18th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
Wel Just Upgradeing Around on Here Eh?!:
September 20th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
Is it possible to ad the active url when posting a tweet from Twitterbar? One can click on the twitter icon to post the url which results in a 'currently browsing' text followed by the link on Twitter or write a tweet from the Firefox adress bar without the url of the webpage, but is it possible to combine both in the current version of Twitterbar? Being able to write a header or subject line that inserts the webpage?
September 21st, 2009 at 8:18 am
I agree with Bob (#230) it would be nice to extract the title of the page being browsed to accompany the link. Is this already available through about:config?
September 29th, 2009 at 7:17 am
I fully agree with Dean
September 29th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Hey!
I LOVE this Add-On an insane amount, it has really helped with my productivity (don't have to bring up a new window to tweet a new resource). I'm wondering if you have plans to make one for Google Chrome? I'm considering switching (I downloaded it) but the lack of twitterbar makes me a little doubtful about how useful it will be for me.
Thanks!