{"id":227,"date":"2009-02-03T22:22:19","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T16:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/?p=227"},"modified":"2009-02-03T22:22:19","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T16:52:19","slug":"update-twitter-status-tweet-address-bar-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/update-twitter-status-tweet-address-bar-firefox\/","title":{"rendered":"Easier Way to Update Twitter Status: Address Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/twitter-1-1.png\" alt=\"Twitter\" title=\"Twitter\" width=\"155\" height=\"59\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-228 intro\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"intro\">I have already created a <a href=\"http:\/\/binnyva.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/using-twitter-part-1-command-line.html\">script to update twitter(or tweet, or whatever) from the command line<\/a>. For those who are not big fans of command line, there is another method to make tweeting easier &#8211; <strong class=\"highlight\">tweeting from the address bar<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"higlight\">Firefox<\/strong> has an cool feature that lets you substitute words in the address bar &#8211; we are going to use this feature to update twitter status from the address bar. And, for that reason, this trick only works in Firefox. First, you have to create a bookmark.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bookmarks &gt; Organize Bookmarks&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Select &#8216;Bookmarks Menu&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Organize &gt; New Bookmark&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Set the name as &#8216;Twitter&#8217;. The location must be &#8216;http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=%s&#8217;. Enter &#8216;tweet&#8217; in the keyword field.<\/p>\n<p>Now open up a new tab and type in&#8230;<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"text\">tweet Testing the new address bar tweeting method.<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Now the text you entered will automatically be inserted into the textarea in twitter &#8211; but <strong class=\"highlight\">you will have to click the Update button for it to be posted<\/strong>. If you want to make it easier, write a greasemonkey script to auto insert the text. But be warned, there is a small security risk in doing that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>I have already created a <a href=\"http:\/\/binnyva.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/using-twitter-part-1-command-line.html\">script to update twitter(or tweet, or whatever) from the command line<\/a>. For those who are not big fans of command line, there is another method to make tweeting easier &#8211; <strong class=\"highlight\">tweeting from the address bar<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27],"tags":[37,53,116,182,291,292],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firefox","category-sites","tag-address","tag-bar","tag-firefox","tag-method","tag-tweet","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}