Save Time and Reduce Stress by Tweeting from Any Page

You can waste a lot of time daily going back and forth from Twitter and other sites in any browser when you’re on your computer. So many times we stress a lot also when it comes to replying to people quickly or properly by pausing and leaving everything we are doing in one window and focusing on Twitter in another window. Even switching to your phone to tweet means taking the time away from your desktop or laptop browser and pausing whatever you were doing. It doesn’t have to be that way.

You can save time and reduce stress by tweeting and checking all your twitter notifications right from any web page you are on. All you have to do is get the proper extension or add-on for your browser. I personally use Silver Bird extensively in Chrome, which is mentioned below.

Silver Bird - example of tweeting on any page in Chrome

Silver Bird - example of tweeting on any page in Chrome. In this picture, I'm tweeting and checking mentions without ever leaving the Social Improve homepage.

I use it so much, in fact, that it has now become my #1 accessed extension or app button in my browser. I can get notifications, check tweets, reply to people, send out tweets and dm’s, check timelines or search for anything without ever leaving the page I’m on. This saves me at least an hour or two daily from switching back and forth between windows or pausing anything I am doing just to tweet or vice versa. It also reduces a lot of stress for me as I don’t have to worry about when to reply to tweets or other notifications.

The following extensions allow you to do different Twitter things like tweet, reply to @ mentions or send private messages and more without ever leaving the website you are on. We are covering Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari here. These extensions quickly and easily open either sidebars or new small windows on any website you are on to do different Twitter related things.

Tweet from any browser via Extensions, Add-ons and Widgets

Chrome

Firefox

  • Echofon
  • Hootbar. Requires free account creation at Hootsuite.
  • Yoono. Requires data sharing [no passwords]. Also works on multiple platforms like Internet Explorer below.

Internet Explorer

  • CloudBerry TweetIE. Allows you to tweet or share websites easily. However, mentions and DM’s are missing.
  • Yoono. Works on multiple platforms like Firefox above.

Opera

Safari

Lack of enough Twitter extensions for IE, Opera and Safari

Surprisingly, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari seem to have the least number of good Twitter extensions. The reason for Internet Explorer could be because of the bloated add-on interface for Internet Explorer, the closed access for Safari in many areas which are available only if you are signed into Safari, and Opera because it has still not yet gained any big momentum like Chrome or Firefox.

If you know of any other Twitter extensions for any browser that you use or recommend, please let us know in the comments below.

Which browser extension do you prefer?

Which browser and extension do you prefer from the above? Any others you can recommend? What tips or methods do you follow when tweeting while doing things on other sites? Have you used any extension or add-on from above?

Share your thoughts in the comments below. Happy Tweeting!

About William

William lives in Oakley, California and is an avid tech enthusiast. When he's not writing about online social networking and businesses, he is busy reviewing how social media affects us all.

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10 Responses to Save Time and Reduce Stress by Tweeting from Any Page

  1. Joseph DjSwissbeats Stewart June 9, 2011 at 10:50 pm #

    Rockmelts better!but good idea!

  2. Joseph DjSwissbeats Stewart June 9, 2011 at 10:51 pm #

    What’s the diffrence between this and rockmelt?

  3. Bes Zain June 9, 2011 at 10:52 pm #

    No bloatware of Rockmelt.

  4. Social Improve June 9, 2011 at 11:52 pm #

    This has nothing to do with Rockmelt; it’s about extensions, and the extensions mentioned for chrome in the article also work for Rockmelt. Different topic than rockmelt.

  5. Joseph DjSwissbeats Stewart June 10, 2011 at 12:05 am #

    You said that application is an extension in chrome and yes in Rockmeltvyou can tweet,veiw twitter in the feed page whille ur browsing,also anyother feed from any other website,it has not Twitter share but with facebook share any website,and way more,that’s all I need,also u can share,like,comment,message in the facebookse fees,in Twitter Feed u can share,retweet,comment and more..

  6. Joseph DjSwissbeats Stewart June 10, 2011 at 12:05 am #

    Proper extension&

  7. Joseph DjSwissbeats Stewart June 10, 2011 at 12:05 am #

    Quote you!

  8. Social Improve June 10, 2011 at 10:50 am #

    @Joseph DjSwissbeats Stewart: Sure, though Rockmelt is bloated like I said and slows down to a crawl with my around 20k+ contacts loading on Twitter and Facebook. With these extension, which are lightweight and some of them superior to Rockmelt’s built in tweeting [which doesn't come close at all to Silver Bird], people can use any browser or even the lightweight Chrome and still do anything they wish in lightbox type windows. In RockMelt, the tweeting or facebook windows take over and you can’t do anything else at the same time.

  9. Meelni Gori September 21, 2012 at 9:51 pm #

    There are so many aspects to this, and you have opened up another train of thought for me to examine. Thank you for your insight. This article is something that will help me with my class assignment. It helped me to better understand another aspect of this topic.

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  1. Bes Zain - June 12, 2011

    How to tweet from any browser without leaving any site you're on http://ow.ly/5fKjQ What tools do you use to tweet?

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