BigTweet
Surf the web and post to Twitter!
Just drag the button up to your toolbar.
Help with Firefox | IE | Safari (please read) | Google Chrome
- Post to Twitter from any web page
When you click on the BigTweet bookmarklet, a window appears in the middle of your current web page. Use it to post to Twitter and then return to what you were doing.
- Choose a 140 or 280 character limit
A 140 char limit is a classic Twitter post. You can optionally enable up to 280 characters. Depending upon the size of your update, your post might occur in clearly labeled multiple tweets. Give it a try!
- ☺ Include special ♫ unicode characters ♥
There is a whole range of special characters that can be included to help express what you’d really like to say.
- Shorten URLs without leaving the current Web page
URL shortening can translate a long URL into a short one such as http://bit.ly/xj5×5 This can be done right from the window you open with the bookmarklet. The URL of the current page is automatically captured, though any URL can be entered for shortening.
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- Does this cost anything?
No. This current service is free.
- What about security?
BigTweet uses the secure https protocol whenever you login or our servers communicate with Twitter to post your update. Your password is always kept encrypted while on our servers. If you uncheck the "Keep me logged in" checkbox used at login, we will not store your encrypted password after your session ends (browser is closed). The encryption key is unique per user and is kept outside the server.
BigTweet runs on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Amazon SimpleDB is used to store usernames and encrypted passwords for users who wish to remain logged in at the end of a browser session - see the "Keep me logged in"checkbox used at login. Memcached is used as a general purpose caching layer as well as storage for session information.
The backend is implemented with Perl running on Apache (mod_perl). BigTweet uses the Catalyst MVC (Model/View/Controller) Web framework. A test regression suite is maintained and exception detection is instrumented throughout the code for error detection/handling.
The frontend is implemented with Javascript using Prototype and Script.aculo.us. The CSS layout is greatly assisted by the use of YUI Grids CSS. BigTweet makes use of Ajax calls for posting Twitter updates and shortening URLs. BigTweet uses the bit.ly API for URL shortening.
Filed under Posting |FutureTweets
What’s this all about?
FutureTweets.com is a free service that lets you schedule your Twitter messages. Send it at a specific time in the future or send a reoccuring Tweet daily, weekly, monthly or yearly!
You’ll never forget the birthdays of your beloved Twitter friends again! Just schedule a nice Tweet on their birthday!
Signup now! (It’s free) or login!
Why do people use FutureTweets?
Most people use it because it’s fun to:
- Send status updates to Twitter even when your away from your phone or computer!
- Have an alibi…
- Automaticaly wish your friend a wonderfull day each morning
- Remind yourself each friday evening to quit work early and go for the friday evening drinks…
- ¡spɹɐʍʞɔɐq ƃuıʇǝǝʍʇ ʎq spuǝıɹɟ ɹnoʎ ʎouuɐ
Twuffer
Twuffer allows the Twitter user to compose a list of future tweets, and schedule their release.
They designed Twuffer for anyone who has a need to schedule pre-written, post-dated tweets.
They bet that you’ll invent creative uses for Twuffer. Here are a few off the top of their heads:
- tweet hourly/daily/monthly announcements
- appointment/milestone reminders
- run a time-based scavenger hunt
- notify subscribers about upcoming podcast or video episodes
- appear to never sleep
Twitterified
Using this Twitter client, you can send and read Tweets like you’ve always done. The web service work hand-in-hand with Twitter, adding additional functionalities to your Tweets.
Twitterified owes everything to twitter.com and imified.com.
The latter provides the inspiration for the name and our drive to improve existing chat services.
The goal of Twitterified is to offer extended services on top of the already cool services offered by Twitter.
Here are a few of the things they are working on
- Create long messages (up to 32,768 c.)
- Send/view rich messages,
including pictures, movies, web pages, etc. - Threaded conversations
- Send/receive Tweets from your mail client
- Manage groups of friends
- Interact with your team
- Create/read reminder notes
- Post entries to your Blogger blog
- Post bookmarks to your Delicious account
- Track your personal finances
- Post entries to your calendar
- Organize your to-do list
Twitterified Client from Chris Ravenscroft on Vimeo.
Updating.Me
What’s Updating.Me?
Updating.Me is a simple service that allows you to update your status on multiple sites from one place.
Why Updating.Me?
Updating.Me takes the dirty work out of updating your status across your sites. Simply post your status on Updating.Me and we take care of the rest.
There’s an Adobe AIR app available here.
Filed under AIR, Apps, Posting |Twittertise
Twittertise allows you to advertise on Twitter and track the success of branded communications with your customers.
Using Twittertise you can schedule your communications on Twitter and using URL tracking technology measure the effectiveness of your traffic driving techniques on the platform.
Twittertise Overview from whalewisdom on Vimeo.
TwitterKeys
TwitterKeys is a small tool @bomega & @sandervdv developed at The Next Web Blog which provides you with a floating window with all these funny symbols you can use in Twitter. These are the symbols currently provided:
Filed under Bookmarks, Fun, Posting |Drag this link to your browser
bookmarks toolbar: TwitterKeys
Twidge
Twidge is a tool for interacting with microblogging sites such as Twitter and identi.ca.
Twidge is a full command-line client. It is designed to be useful when you’re sitting at a shell prompt. It’s also designed to work well with the Unix/POSIX/Linux shell scripting environment. It produces output in well-formed and easily-parsed ways, and has various features for working with piped data.
It can be used to:
- Simply update your own status and following your friends
- Setting status based on system events
- Receiving status updates via email, and sending your friends and your replies to email
- Scheduling status updates for the future
Twiike
Twitter your Nike+ runs. If you have your Nike trainers plugged into your iPod with Nike+ and want to share your runs with your Twitter Friends, you can with Twiike.
How to Sign Up:
- Enter into your Nike+ username & password.
- Enter your Twitter username & password
- Twiike will automatically post any run you sync after entering your Twitter info.
