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Tweet from your Twitter “Share” bookmarklet

Vasu — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:01:55 +0000

Today most of the websites provide tweet button. If you liked a particular article, these tweet buttons make tweeting easier. What if tweet button is not present on the website, then it becomes uneasy as you need to copy the title and the web url of the post manually to tweet. Twitter share Bookmarket comes handy in such situations.

This bookmarklet is very simple to use:

- Just add the bookmarklet to your bookmark toolbar (drag and drop to your toolbar)
- Go to the page that you want tweet
- Press this bookmarklet
- New page comes to new tab, “Share to Twitter” page
- Change the text if you want (but not the URL!) or skip that, default text is site’s title
- Press ‘Tweet’
- Done! Page will automatically close in few seconds.

Bookmarklet that use Twitter’s new Tweet Button API. Code is based of Delicious’s own bookmarklet.

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Update Facebook Status from Twitter Tweets:Twitter Facebook application

Vasu — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:38:07 +0000

The best way to socialize and stay connected with everyone is to use Twitter and Facebook.Twitter is the most popular micro blogging tool and Facebook is the best social networking site.If you are using both services, you must be knowing how pain it is to update your status on both web services manually.But everyone always love to update what they are doing.If you find it difficult updating the status message, then this one is for you. Twitter Facebook application makes your job easier.

You need to enter your Twitter login details, agree to terms of use for using it.After that, you can update your Facebook account as and when you update your Twitter account. Besides saving lot of time, it will keep both your Twitter and Facebook friends happy with constant flow updates – Twitter Facebook application.

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Most Popular Twitter Acronyms

Vasu — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:49:04 +0000

Twitter is famous for micro blogging.It is used to share everything, i.e from breaking news to updates from friends, Where we can send tweets of 140 characters.Acronyms are used in the tweets sent.Most of these Acronyms are famous among regular internet users.Here is a list of Popular Acronyms that people use on Twitter.

RT = Retweet.

PRT = Partial Retweet / Please Retweet.

OH = Overheard.

DM = Direct Message.

@ : Reply to [username]. for Ex @techolar

BTW : By The Way

FTW = For The Win.

FTL = For The Loss.

IRL = In Real Life.

FTF = Face to Face.

IMHO = In My Honest Opinion.

YMMV = Your Mileage May Vary.

BR = Best Regards.

b/c = because.

JV = Joint Venture.

LMK = Let Me Know.

Don’t forget to use these Acronyms while you tweet next time :)

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Most Popular Twitter Acronyms