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July 27, 2009


Use Twitter to boost your online presence The Twitter micro-blogging service is a handy tool for sharing links, engaging in conversation and general information release. But how can one add even more convenience to this priceless platform? Third-party Twitter apps for your browser.

  • Tweecious: In order to combine micro-blogging and social bookmarking, Tweecious feeds links from your Twitter account through to your Delicious page. This means that the moment you tweet a link, it will automatically be listed on your social bookmarking profile.
  • TwitKit: Available on Windows, Mac and Linux, TwitKit allows for easy customisation and organisation of friends and followers in the handy sidebar. TwitKit also boasts features which other clients don’t yet include, such as public timeline view and tweet deletion.
  • TwitterBar: This handy Firefox add-on places a Twitter button in your address bar to make posting links a lot easier. Simply click the TwitterBar button to post the URL from your browser directly to your Twitter account.
  • Twitter Search: The search bar in Firefox is a helpful tool for quick searching between different search engines or sites. Add Twitter Search to your list of Firefox add-ons and search Twitter directly from your browser.
  • TwitterFox: One of the most popular Twitter add-ons, TwitterFox, provides pop-ups in the right hand corner of your screen to keep you up to speed with your friends’ tweets, @replies and even direct messages to you.

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Thank you for the Twitter posts you've been doing. I am quite new to the Twitter scene and I find them very helpful! Keep it up!

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