Include website’s title in Tweetie’s bookmarklet

Dennis — Sun, 10 May 2009 13:01:29 +0000

Tweetie is the most hyped twitter client for Mac OS X at the moment. It offers a bookmarklet for simple tweeting of websites opening its quick post dialog and showing the URL.

But the usual format of my tweets when posting websites is the title of the page, followed by the URL in parenthesis. So I adjusted the bookmarklet to use this format.Just drag this link Post with Tweetie to your bookmarks bar. Tested with Safari 4 Beta and Firefox 3.0.7.

Twitter URLs using Quicksilver

Dennis — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:43:04 +0000

Wouldn’t it be nice to send the URL you’re currently looking at in Safari directly to Twitter by just executing a Quicksilver command or even by hitting a hotkey? I think, yes it is! And so I wrote an Applescript that performs the folowing tasks:

Read the URL and title of the website currently shown in Safari
Create a short URL using is.gd
Open Twitter in Safari showing a message like “The site’s title (http://is.gd/abcd)”
Additionally the short URL is copied to the clipboard

Just copy the script to a directory where Quicksilver can find it and you’re done. Tweeting an interesing website is a breeze. You could even set up a Quicksilver trigger and assign a hotkey for even easier execution.

The script itself uses some snippets from external resources. This site is a great overview on how to shorten URLs with Applescript and how to use it with Quicksilver. A routine for finding and replacing text can be found here.

Download the script: Twitter URL

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Include website’s title in Tweetie’s bookmarklet

Twitter URLs using Quicksilver