tweetbar

Tweetbar is a wicked cool Twitter sidebar for Firefox and Flock.

Get it

Click on the following link to install Tweetbar in your browser:

Install Tweetbar 1.0 (Not compatible with Firefox 3)

If you get blocked the first time you click this link, follow the instructions to “allow” installations from my domain and try again.

Use it

Once you have it installed and you’v restarted your browser, you can open the Tweetbar via “View > Sidebar > Tweetbar” in the browser menu bar. Or use the keyboard shortcut Cmd + Shift + T (that’s Control + Shift + T if you’re stuck on a Windows PC).

More…

If you’re interested, there’s a launch announcement on my blog.

Update - mar 21

I just rolled out a new version of Tweetbar. There’s no need to download or reinstall anything, you’ll automatically get the updated version when you open Tweetbar. If you already have Tweetbar open, you will have to close it and reopen to get the update (just Tweetbar, not your whole browser).

Here’s a list of the fixes and enhancements included in this update:

• now recognizing all URLs in tweet status text and turning them into links
• now using browser preferences for long-term information storage
  • remember username & password and automatically log in when Tweetbar is opened
  • remember refresh interval
  • remember active panel
• only clear “old tweets” - (thanks, jonathan!)
• fixed: sort tweets in friends_timeline chronologically
• fixed: sort friends and followers lists alphabetically
• fixed: display all timestamps as local “offset” times (eg, 3 minutes ago) - (thanks, anders)
• parsing URLs when receiving a tweet rather than every time it’s displayed
• use JSON rather than XML now that profile images are provided
• added X-Twitter-Client-* headers to Ajax request - via: http://twitter.pbwiki.com/API-Docs
• fixed: sign-out was forcing reload of public timeline
• optimized how tweets are stored in memory

Tweetbar works with Firefox:

as well as Flock: