TwitterBar 2.4, Now With 2% Longer Tweets
TwitterBar 2.4 was released this morning, and the main change is that it now integrates the URL shortening service tweak.tk. The URLs that .tk generates are the shortest you can get, weighing in at 15 characters; TwitterBar's previous URL shortener, is.gd, generated 18-character URLs.
What does this mean? Well, now when you post a URL to Twitter with TwitterBar, you have 125 characters for your message instead of 122. So feel free to toss an extra LOL or BRB in there; you've got plenty of room.
Christopher Finke is a software engineer. He is available for birthday parties and bar mitzvahs. 
June 12th, 2009 at 1:15 am
Is there any way you can make your widget narrower? 500 width just doesn't fit most blogs I've seen. I'd love to add the widget, but I need something in the say 125 to 160 range tops. I'd add it in a flash if I could :)
June 12th, 2009 at 1:19 am
LOL, ignore that last post, I found it... long way around but I see that I can modify it, thanks!
June 12th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
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June 21st, 2009 at 10:30 pm
My Trend Micro Corporate filter marks almost everything from .tk as phishing. Is there a way to force TinyURL?
June 24th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
Please, there are a lot of users wanting Snick.me shortener service, because they have rankings and trends, and their API has a pretty cool functionality: Dynamic Tweet (you send whole tweet text and it give back the same tweet with all URLs shortened in plain text. (http://snick.me/help/api)
It's a tip, I'm trying to keep my friends using TwitterBar :)
And congrats for the plug-in, very discreet to use at work ;) and useful!
June 25th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
Hihi Chris! Thanx for your continued development on this, it's much appreciated. Any way to revert back to is.gd or make TwitterBar use tr.im ? I, too, am running into problems (different ones but issues nonetheless) with .tk . Thanks in advance!
June 30th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
I notice now that no matter what URL shortener I choose in twitterbar (by right-clicking on the 'Tiny' icon and choosing a service), it always uses tweak.tk. I like the option to use tweak.tk, but why is it overriding my selection?
July 2nd, 2009 at 5:13 pm
Have you thought about using http://tinyarro.ws/ This site shortens URLs into the most minute of sizes at only 13 or 14 characters. Here's the tinyarrow URL for your site: http://?.ws/??
July 2nd, 2009 at 5:13 pm
OK, maybe it doesn't work sometimes, ha ha. You should probably disregard what I said.
July 8th, 2009 at 4:35 am
Please tr.im !
July 8th, 2009 at 5:03 am
I just noticed that the settings windows of your addon is not big enough for all settings: http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/1126/screenshot057twitterbar.png
July 21st, 2009 at 11:26 am
I installed the Twitterbar, but it doesn't work! I typed in the message and did -post and waited. Nothing. I tried the message and --post. Nothing. I tried clicking the T icon. Nothing. I checked my settings on Twitter and Twitterbar IS allowed. What am I dong wrong?
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:50 am
The best plugin for Twitter I have used till date, really it provides such an ease to
post any articles on Twitter without actually login to Twitter. It really a boon for Firefox users
November 27th, 2009 at 3:00 am
Consider using http://j.mp/ as a link shortener, it's a bit.ly featured site and does only have 18 chars too.