Christopher Finke writes about software, woodworking, and other creative endeavors.

TwitterBar 2.4, Now With 2% Longer Tweets

Update: TwitterBar was sold to HootSuite and renamed HootBar in March of 2011. TwitterBar for Chrome was discontinued in October of 2012.

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.

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13 responses to “TwitterBar 2.4, Now With 2% Longer Tweets”

  1. Diane Scott Avatar
    Diane Scott

    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 :)

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  2. Diane Scott Avatar
    Diane Scott

    LOL, ignore that last post, I found it… long way around but I see that I can modify it, thanks!

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  3. Rasputin Avatar
    Rasputin

    My Trend Micro Corporate filter marks almost everything from .tk as phishing. Is there a way to force TinyURL?

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  4. Neto Avatar
    Neto

    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!

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  5. Torley Avatar
    Torley

    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!

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  6. Shawn Avatar
    Shawn

    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?

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  7. tlkirk Avatar
    tlkirk

    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/??

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  8. tlkirk Avatar
    tlkirk

    OK, maybe it doesn’t work sometimes, ha ha. You should probably disregard what I said.

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  9. jk Avatar
    jk

    Please tr.im !

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  10. Nico Avatar
    Nico

    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

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  11. Jana Avatar
    Jana

    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?

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  12. Himanshu Avatar
    Himanshu

    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

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  13. ROFLcOptimist Avatar
    ROFLcOptimist

    Consider using http://j.mp/ as a link shortener, it’s a bit.ly featured site and does only have 18 chars too.

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