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Update: TwitterBar has been acquired by HootSuite and has been renamed HootBar.
TwitterBar was an extension for the Mozilla Firefox Web browser (originally written by Tony Farndon) that allowed you to post to Twitter from the Firefox address bar.
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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 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 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 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 8th, 2008 at 11:42 am
Flock, like a Christmas Tree? It’s providing me with imaginative mental pictures! Just kidding of course!
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 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 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 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?
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 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 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 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.
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 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
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 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
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 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?
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 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 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 26th, 2009 at 10:15 am
It keeps on requiring authorisation. I think that that is taking more than a second. :I
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 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.
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 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 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 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 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 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 11:47 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
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 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 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!
October 14th, 2009 at 12:50 am
Great idea.I saw another addon that can send tweets in the search from.
Thanks for Information
October 16th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
Thanks bro i like twitterbar
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:09 am
How do I change between Twitter accounts?
October 24th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
Twitterbar is an amazing tool for stealth mode twitting. I use it a lot when I’m in office. Thanks Christy.
October 24th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
how do i get a twitter account
October 26th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Twitter Bar – Twitter works because it is plain and simple.
October 27th, 2009 at 3:54 am
Hey there, Twitterbar is a nice Addon.
Why did you remove dot.tk as Url Shortener since the new version? It takes 3 more characters.
November 21st, 2009 at 7:39 pm
hey!
i changed my twitter password, do i need to like change it on twitterbar as well or something?
thanks man, kathie:D
November 28th, 2009 at 1:31 am
hi Chris Finke!
unable to log in to twitter bar at present.
Thank you
regards
DMcL
December 1st, 2009 at 2:25 am
how can i use the twitter bar properly?
December 6th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
I saw another addon that can send tweets in the search from
December 12th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Hello! Excellent App… But it’s still having the problem with the XML options dialog… It was working anyway, but I updated to the last version (2.7.3) and the app didn’t work anymore… =(
Some ideas? (I’m using Win7 and the last version of Firefox…)
December 20th, 2009 at 2:11 am
TwitterBar is really helpful.
Thanks so much :D.
December 22nd, 2009 at 6:24 am
All is good except a major problem these days.
If I try a really long tweet which is beyond 160 char (or some) limit then bar does not complain that twitter has refused and you even looses the tweet from the address bar. now there is no way to get what you were writing and it was saved nowhere.
December 23rd, 2009 at 6:45 am
Firefox 3.5.5
Vista Home
Error de lectura XML: entidad no definida
Ubicación: chrome://twitterbar/content/optionsDialog.xul
Número de línea 4, columna 1:
<prefwindow
^
Please, thanks
December 26th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
has refused and you even looses the tweet from the address bar. now there is no way to get what you were writing and it was saved nowhere.
December 27th, 2009 at 3:35 am
Hi, thank for the great application.
Could you please add a new function. That is a notation that a webpage has been added to twitter already so one doesn’t post the same address to Twitter twice.
Let’s me explain. I used to open many webpages in tabs and switch back and forth all the time. I post the address of the interesting webpages to Twitter through your application. Sometimes, I post an address twice because there’s no sign that the webpage (in some tabs) has been posted to Twitter.
Thank you very much and happy holidays
January 2nd, 2010 at 10:55 pm
I don’t normally post but this is one of those amazing app that needs to be shown to the world. Thank you for your development.
January 13th, 2010 at 2:51 pm
I preffered the t symbol instead of this stupid bird that I almos can’t diferentiate in my adress bar
I would be cool if you return to the t symbol or if you give us the chance to choose which symbol we like the most
thanks!
February 4th, 2010 at 11:14 am
Ok, the URL shortener with bit.ly, doesn’t appear to work on FF 3.5.7. Not sure how it should behave: should it shorten the URL as I paste it in, or while it’s sending the tweet? It’s not doing either, so..
February 12th, 2010 at 9:14 am
Any change we will see Twitter Bar for Chrome any time soon? Love Chrome and love Twitter Bar. My life is at cross roads!
February 12th, 2010 at 9:17 am
It’s already done: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/pbadgdglepgngpoeijdgicjccomadekm
February 14th, 2010 at 11:19 pm
love Twitter Bar
February 17th, 2010 at 5:40 am
Grande componente aggiuntivo! Mi piace molto ed è molto comodo!!!
Great add-ons! I like very much and it’s very useful!!!
Thanks.
Bye bye from Italy,
Enrico
February 20th, 2010 at 5:20 pm
Twitter Bar – Twitter works because it is plain and simple.
February 20th, 2010 at 5:21 pm
Twitterbar is an amazing tool for stealth mode twitting. I use it a lot when I’m in office. Thanks Christy.
February 27th, 2010 at 7:40 pm
twitter bar is so useful, because of this I feel more comfortable to tweet ;)
March 8th, 2010 at 9:58 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?
March 9th, 2010 at 6:51 am
I don’t know if this is the correct place to talk about bug/features of Twitterbar, sorry if not.
The new functionality of posting with command –post is AWESOME, but, if you post using it and your tweet exceed 140 characters and then you cancel the prompt message (because you want to correct the twweet) you can’t do this, the tweet is erased after cancel the prompt.
Regards
March 11th, 2010 at 2:35 pm
I need https://twitter.com support. Can you add this?
March 12th, 2010 at 11:17 pm
I feel more comfortable to tweet ;)
March 14th, 2010 at 1:57 am
Hello,
Right after posting an URL (called X) to Twitter, you switch to another tab with URL Y; the posted URL X will be placed in adress-bar where it must be URL Y.
Is it a logical mistake?
Thank for your great application.
March 25th, 2010 at 12:39 pm
Great, thanks for this program, I love how it’s lightweight.
April 2nd, 2010 at 10:30 pm
I can’t seem to tweet via twitter its self, since I installed Twitterbar is that me or Twitter?
April 17th, 2010 at 2:13 pm
Could there be an option to only shorten links if the message is too long? I like to post the original link if it will fit and this isn’t too much ask (plus I really wonder about all these url shorteners… do the links ever expire? over time, they’ll just get longer and longer if they don’t purge or recognize when the same link was already used… try it. You can get as many different links to the same page with any service… they don’t recognize that they already have a link for _____ website).
April 28th, 2010 at 10:37 am
Hy Chris
TwitterBar is a cool Firefox Add-on.
Unfortunatly there are still bugs in case you have more than one twitter account registered in TwitterBar.
I have two twitter accounts registered and I have the following problems:
1) If the text is to long (longer than 140) and I send it two my _second_ twitter account, I receive first an error message and afterwards its posted on my _first_ twitter account.
2) If I post a message with TwitterBar to my _second_ twitter account, sometimes it will be posted to both twitter accounts.
I hope you can fix these problems.
Cheers, Pepe
May 13th, 2010 at 11:18 am
i’ve used twitterbar and i didn’t found any problem…thank for twitterbar
May 14th, 2010 at 5:54 am
Great, thanks for this program, I love how it’s lightweight.
June 24th, 2010 at 3:49 am
FF 3.6.4 on Linux, trying to authorize my account fails with “TwitterBar encountered an error (401):
/oauth/access_token
Invalid / expired Token
”
Have tried removing TwitterBar and reinstalling. Twitter says TwitterBar has R/W access to my Twitter account. Trying to send a tweet just hangs with something in the TwitterBar status section saying “Authorizing”, tweet never goes. Even removed my account and added it back, still gets same message.
What to do?
July 8th, 2010 at 8:17 pm
After posting the current url, the text in the address box is not restored.
It either goes blank and displays “Search Bookmarks and History”,
or it displays the url from another tab, usually the first tab, or tab(1)
if the tab order has been re-arranged.
Otherwise, it’s great, thanks.
July 13th, 2010 at 10:12 pm
I had a problem posting the below URL. TwitterBar cp9410 split the URL oddly and only tinyurl’d the part up to the end of the im:.
July 19th, 2010 at 3:50 pm
love the idea of this… can’t get it to work though. stops at the authorisation process with the following error
“TwitterBar can’t contact Twitter because Twitter is down.”
twitter does not look down to me. any help?
July 29th, 2010 at 10:27 pm
Is anybody using on windows firefox 3.6.8 ?
Mine doesn’t work anymore. ‘Authorizing’ on address bar forever.
It worked on 1 or 2 months ago though.
July 30th, 2010 at 5:24 am
sorry, it was another add-on’s problem. it works on 3.6.8.
please remove comment above(292).
July 30th, 2010 at 5:26 am
Excellent tool! Now I use twitter more often, it’s so comfortable now :)
Thanks!
July 31st, 2010 at 2:09 pm
thats so cool get the error off my account please because its stopping other staff not inportant staff though anyway have fun :) smiles
July 31st, 2010 at 2:09 pm
sorry again just testing something
August 4th, 2010 at 4:27 am
Is there a way to edit the text that will be posted when I want to tweet the page I am currently reading? I’m not talking about the using $$ in the options, but rather a way to edit the proposed text before it is actually posted to twitter. Maybe I don’t want the page title or only want a portion of the page title. Maybe I want to add a customized message per tweet. Is this possible?
August 8th, 2010 at 4:49 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.
August 8th, 2010 at 5:10 am
it works on 3.6.8. thanks
August 19th, 2010 at 1:24 am
KEeps asking for autorization for my second twitter account. (doesnt recognice it). Anyone has this problem ? any solution?
August 26th, 2010 at 6:35 pm
Tomorrow it is a familiar Friday since my Sundays are social jajajaa
September 6th, 2010 at 2:13 pm
It seems smart enough to manage the character counter to know to reduce any long URL to the shortener’s equivalent length. So simply pasting a long URL will show the character length countdown as 119 (maybe off by one, but fine). That’s a great feature! I notice that the counter is *not* smart enough to recognize ” –post” on the end so if you’re using that method to post
**you’ll need to remember to not worry about your length limit until the indicator says “-7″**.
I don’t think this will be too easy to fix; maybe logic is “if at EOL and last current token starts with — then stop counting towards count.” Anyway, not a big deal but does need to be remembered by those of us who regularly hit the 140 mark. Thanks for a great tool!
September 10th, 2010 at 2:22 pm
hey there. one thing if you can do. When there is only one account use. Jut allow it to post directly rather than prompting or letting me write my big @username.
else its awesome
Thank you
September 18th, 2010 at 8:17 am
thank you it works on 3.6.8.
October 1st, 2010 at 11:42 am
If u want more langs, i can help for Turkish.
October 9th, 2010 at 6:15 pm
Freakin’ love this! Saves a lot of time and effort. Lol.
October 14th, 2010 at 4:05 am
I can’t use twitterbar
November 8th, 2010 at 3:49 pm
Hey the twitter bar was grate
November 14th, 2010 at 4:29 am
I will use with 3.6.12 and after 4.I wish,it will be work
November 14th, 2010 at 4:23 pm
It keeps on requiring authorisation. I think that that is taking more than a second. :
December 2nd, 2010 at 3:36 pm
Would it be possible in a future update, to have a box pop up when tweeting a URL, allowing you to view and edit the tweet before sending it to twitter?
Thanks for the great add-on :)
December 27th, 2010 at 5:58 pm
I get this message
WINDOWS XP PRO SP3, Firefox 3.6.13,
TwitterBar ha encontrado un error (401):
Failed to validate oauth signature and token
February 10th, 2011 at 3:27 pm
Could there be an option to only shorten links if the message is too long? I like to post the original link if it will fit and this isn’t too much ask (plus I really wonder about all these url shorteners… do the links ever expire? over time, they’ll just get longer and longer if they don’t purge or recognize when the same link was already used… try it. You can get as many different links to the same page with any service… they don’t recognize that they already have a link for _____ website).
February 12th, 2011 at 1:02 pm
Wow, someone was thinking. A very good system you put in place. I’m sure it will take a lot of the stress away !
Good work…
February 19th, 2011 at 4:03 am
Hey the twitter bar was grate
February 20th, 2011 at 5:45 am
thank you mate
February 28th, 2011 at 9:00 am
Hi,
I have three Twitter acoounts. Everytime when I try to connect with twitter I get the following message :
{“request”:”\/statuses\/update.json”,”error”:”Could not authenticate with OAuth.”
Ofcourse I have these three accounts installed in TwitterBar. I can see this. I get the opportunity to select the specific account making the connection with one of these three accounts.
Please can you help me?
Regards,
Jilles
March 18th, 2011 at 4:58 pm
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March 21st, 2011 at 2:06 pm
Hi, I recently came across your add-on and was wondering why it did not support OAuth? I’m hitting authentication error when trying to post something.
Any fix?
March 25th, 2011 at 2:50 pm
I use Chrome almost exclusively. Thanks for the Chrome version.
You guys are doing a great job. Thanks for all your hard work
Rev. Rick Stoneking
March 27th, 2011 at 2:25 am
Hmm, hope to get this thing running on Chrome.. love to see working already. Thanks.
April 8th, 2011 at 10:59 am
And what about the Safari version ? with a little help from my friend
Bonjour to everyone !!!
April 22nd, 2011 at 5:54 pm
Really liked your post. Wish you continued success.
April 26th, 2011 at 9:58 am
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June 7th, 2011 at 4:18 pm
Really.Thank you very much :)
July 4th, 2011 at 9:22 am
Does this work with Chrome too?
August 18th, 2011 at 11:12 am
This tool makes tweeting faster and more convenient. Thank you, now I can tweet my heart out.
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