Twitterfox

30th January 2009

Regular readers of this blog will know that I am currently experimenting with Twitter the ‘micro-blogging’ site that allows you to swap short messages of up to 140 characters with your friends or ‘followers’.

Twittering is getting a lot of press attention at the moment with notable celebrity Twitters such as Stephen Fry and Jonathon Ross proclaiming its virtues on national tele so being an individual thinker, I thought I’d jump on the bandwagon and suss it out for myself.

As I’m a newbie to Twittering, I’m still getting to grips with the idea including the ability to easily keep my Tweets updated. Being a Blackberry fiend this is a lot easier than most would make it as I can either use the mobile Twitter site via the Blackberry web browser or the “Twitterberry” application for BBs. Having said that though Twitter allows yo to update your Tweets by SMS messages from any mobile, however I understand this doesn’t work for every network here in the UK.

To help me keep track whilst I’m sat at my computer on the web I’ve been experimenting with a couple of update methods. I posted the other day about the Flock browser that helps me Tweet away through a single window, however today I’ve resorted to my normal Firefox browser and have instead downloaded and installed Twitterfox which is a Firefox browser plugin that runs in the background in the status bar.

This little application allows me to keep a track of people I am following with “auto-pop-ups” whilst allowing me to post my own Tweets with a simple keyboard short-cut (CTR + SHIFT + P). So far this is my preferred tool of choice.

If you want to follow me; sign-up for an account at: http://twitter.com and then follow me at http://twitter.com/inetengineers. If you want to follow someone famous, go for Stephen Fry who comes out with some witty Tweets at http://twitter.com/stephenfry