Top 10 Browser Plugins for Twitter

Twitter has split wide open a completely different and new sector of internet communication - human powered real time niche search engine. There is no denying Twitter is enjoying a staggering growth rate of 1,382 percent with good reasons for the jump. You might ask this them who rely on Twitter for every breaking news. Then there are those using Twitter for their internal business and networking. For some Twitter is a tool for personal marketing. The Bloggers are not behind, in our previous attempt, we had provided top Twitter App for Bloggers. Now, what if you could make the most of Twitter from your browser itself. Well, there a number of browser extensions that would allow all you Twitter-buffs continue their tweets without having to move to the site. You might be using any browser Firefox, Opera, IE or Safari. Though I found no extension for Google Chrome yet, it sure will arrive soon. Eventually, I assembled a list of the top 10 browser plugin for Twitter.

1. Twitter Search
2. Twippera
3. CloudBerry
4. InstantTweet
5. TwittyTunes
6. PowerTwitter
7. Twitzer
8. Safari 140
9. StockTwits
10. TwitterJobSearch

1. Twitter Search

This search plug-in for Firefox allows you quick access to the real-time Twitter search.

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2. Twippera

It is a useful Opera widget for Twitter  that allows you to automatically connect to your Twitter account, post messages and displays friends online.

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3. CloudBerry

CloudBerry TweetIE is a Twitter pluggin for IE that allows you to post excerpts from the websites you visit with a click of the button and attaches a short URL to the source page.  It takes a few minutes to install the plug-in. With CloudBerry you can

• Select the text on the web pages and tweet it to your friends
• Add link to the source with Chilp.It
• add link to the source page with TinyURL.

It runs on most Windows platforms including Vista.
System requirements: Twitter account, IE 6 or 7, Internet connection, MS .NET Framework 2.0,

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4. InstantTweets 1.0

This Firefox plug-in for Twitter allows the users to send pages, pictures and tweets to Twitter from any where on the web.
The features of InstantTweets include

• Characters Remaining Countdown is highlighted in the address bar.
• Lengthy URL’s are automatically shortened through Twitter
• To instantly tweet about any site just right click
• The bird icon is blue if someone is following you and red if they are not following you.

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5. TwittyTunes

With this Firefox plug-in for Twitter you can post the currently played songs to Twitter with just a click. What’s more you can also post the websites you are visiting, videos you are watching and much more.

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6. Power Twitter 1.22

In case you are looking to add features to the twitter web interface, this would be a great tool. The features of Power Twitter includes

• Search and recent searches
• Facebook status updates
• Online YouTube, Flickr, TwitPic, Google Maps, song.ly and more
• Search scoped to a specific user
• Status history peeking on mouseover
• url expansion
• url translation to pages titles
• open web update (news feed) mapping
• custom settings
• @mentions
• photo uploading
• link shrinking
• #hashtags

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7. Twitzer - Twitter more 1.3

Using this Firefox extension for Twitter you can extend the length of your post more than 140 characters on Twitte.com. Moreover, with this add-on you can also resolve all TinyURL links to ensure that you are clicking on the right links.

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8. Safari 140

For those of you using safari, using this plug-in you can post direct to Twitter. It offers auto-fills for the current site. Safari 140 also  auto-shortens long urls.
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9. StockTwits/Twitter Extension

This Firefox extension turns the StockTwits tagged ticker on twitter.com into links back to socktwits.com. This allows you to get the least conversation.

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10. TwitterJobSearch.com

This is a unique and world’s only job search engine that assists in harnessing the power of Twitter

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