With all the thousands of twitter applications sprouting everyday, it seems finding the right tool could be quite tedious. Seldom, we find the right apps for the right job not to mention the price too. Luckily, today I will feature a very nice twitter tool that will help you manage your official twitter page without using other external API’s. I must admit that organizing (replying, RT, DM etc) your thousands of followers is a disaster.
This tool is cool because the installation is quite easy, features are astounding and the best part of all. It’s FREE! Enough said, let me introduce you to pbTWEET!
According to the website it does the following:
pbtweet is small program that enhances your twitter experience. Infinite timeline scrolling, automatic updating, RT/via style quoting tweet, translating tweets, picture thumbnail badges, translation and inline reply chains to twitter.com. All animation effects are based on Webkit’s early implementation of CSS3 transitions.
How to install pbtweet using firefox 3.5?
- Download first Greasemonkey (de-facto plug-in for integrating javascripts on your firefox browser)
- Download this link here pbtweet_dev_ff.user.js. Automatically your greasemonkey should detect the JS file and will restart your browser to implement the effect.
- Voila! Browse your twitter account now to see the effect.
After using pbTWEET for 5 minutes, we see some noticeable features:
1) Gone are the days when you don’t see the replies of your followers in your “tweet” box. With pbtweet, all the replies of your followers in each of your updates are visible and stacked neatly below.
2) You can now see the complete URL of each compressed URLs (tinyurls) just by hovering your mouse on the link.
3) Trouble-free integration of “Retweeting” on each tweets you received that comes along in 2 variations (classic RT / via @)
4) Translate tweets into your language in one click! (40 languages available)
5) Snazzy thumbnail images from all the picture links of your tweepeeps (flic.kr, tumblr etc)
6) You can see all the people who are “retweeting” you in real-time via your @username (pbtweet provides an additional counter)
6) Automatically [more] page inserted when you scroll down to page bottom.
7) Adds a real-time counter to the RT and direct message dashboard (@username) making it more user-friendly.
Watch the official video in [HQ]
Some minor disadvanatages:
Obviously, you need to enable your browser’s javascript capability.
It has this annoying screen updates at the left-side of your twitter page appearing everytime your “tweepeeps” update their account.
Wrap-up:
This twitter tool sure is a must have for every twitterers. If you don’t have the privilege do download external apps to manage your twitter account. This petite script can do wonders. Though we hope that the geeks of pbTweet will continue to update their tool and add a video link perhaps? Instead of pictures only. Also, try to give options for users to set the timeframe for the screen-updates to appear than just popping out from nowhere.
These are just some of the reasons why it’s a bit “retardish” to create a private twitter-like networking group like this twinoy. You will be missing thousands of amazing applications and much importantly, people who have the same enthusiast like you.
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