UPDATE: Until OAuth is implemented, the extension will give error 401. I apologize I haven’t been able to get this out before they shut off access. When it is finished, your extension will update automatically. Thanks for using TweetBar!
This Extension will place your Twitter feed in a bar in Safari.
The first time you run it, Twitter will want your credentials. The extension doesn’t process these, it goes straight to Twitter.
FEATURES
Click links in tweets
Click @replies and click author usernames
Auto-updating
Toolbar button to hide/show bar
Only one bar shows in one window, click toolbar button to make that window the active TweetBar window
PLANNED
Preview of twitpic images
Eventually, OAuth with posting/replying/DMs etc.
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How do you change the credentials to another account once you’ve already put them in?
As it is, I believe it’s cookie based. The same as visiting Twitter.com. I will update it eventually to have a settings page where you can have whatever account you like. (It’s just more work, OAuth and all that)
The download link just displays gibberish. Methinx the file extension needs to be fixed?
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Haha downloaded it, only to find the twitter website down!
You need to either hold Option when you click the link or right click and do Save As… Safari doesn’t know how to handle those extensions yet.
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Excellent extension! I love it!
great extension, would love to have the ability to make the font bigger. Is there a way?
thanks
j
Making the font bigger would require the text to be on one line, you’d only be able to see about 2 tweets then.
TweetBar causes Safari to crash when a site opens a popup window. I’m not talking about ads (I have to popup blocker turned on), but popups that open when links are clicked.
Example: Go to USPS.com and try to schedule a carrier pickup. Click the calendar icon instead of picking the date from the popup list – the window will open and Safari will crash. I reopened Safari, used the popup lists instead for the date, but then the site opened another popup telling me that I had to be present for my carrier to accept international packages, and Safari crashed again. This is just one example, I had this happen on a number of sites which is why I disabled all extensions and went through them one by one to figure out who the culprit was.
Thanks for the extension – I do like the feature, but I have to disable it since I can’t get any work done if my entire browser keeps crashing all day.
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Can you post tweets to your feed with Tweetbar, and alos shorten the current safari URL with it?
I like this extension, but just in general, does anyone know how to delete extensions?
If you’re hosting your own .safariextz file using Apache, make sure to add:
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AddType application/x-safari-extension safariextz
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to .htaccess in the hosting directory, or instead of downloading it as a binary file, users may get a page of gibberish when they click on a link to it.
@Jonathan
I can’t find the page you’re looking at. If you can send a link I’ll check it out. This extension is fully self contained and has no interaction with the window or page content.
@lucas
It’s in the Safari Preferences.
You can’t do any of that with this extension, but, the beauty of extensions is you can combine them and use them in parallel.
I know for a fact there are 2 other extensions that do the things you’re asking. Check http://safariextensions.tumblr.com/
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TOTALLY awesome!!!
Now we only need a iTunes to Twitter Feed posting Ext!!
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This extension doesn’t seem to work for me at all. I put in my credentials in the resulting dialogue box, and the tweet bar appears blank. Clicking the TweetBar button makes it disappear (I assume it’s a toggle), but another click make it appear and immediately vanish.
Any thoughts?
The issues was oddly resolved after Safari crashed (had already tried a clean restart).
Odd.
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read your reply above, but increasing the fontsize as OPTION would be nice, though.
regards,
tE
The font size will not be changing. There are very limited and fixed options in terms of space available in a Toolbar.
The design is well planned.
Installs but just says Error: 401, Unauthorized in the bar, how do I get it to work?
Go to Twitter.com, log in (or log out then log in), then try disabling/enabling the extension in preferences.
Let me know if you continue to have problems.
Thanks Julian, it’s working now!
Since upgrading to Safari 5.0.1, I’ve been experiencing strange crashes when Safari has no open window. I’ve tested all other extensions, and TweetBar seems to be the culprit. Has anyone else experienced this?
<< I just pushed a little update (v1.16) that should fix this. Anyone else having problems please let me know here.
Julian- It looks like you’re the leader in bringing Twitter to Safari! I’ve noticed that Tweet Bar is not displaying retweets, though. Also, in terms of functionality adds: Can there be a way in the future to have a click on the tweet itself pop open a reply window within the browser, much like clicks on the links and user ID open a page in a new tab?
How do I switch twitter accounts? I tried clearing the cache, clearing the cookies, disabling/enabling the extension, uninstalling/re-installing the extension, and tried logging in and out of twitter, none of which seems to work.
like Karwood, i also find that retweets aren’t displayed if the retweeter used twitter’s own retweet function, but are retweeted if the retweeter just adds “RT” to the tweet.
otherwise a really useful
and probably a stupid question: if you update the extension at some stage, will ours update too automatically?
I have the same problem as a few of the above. I recently changed my twitter name so the extension is still looking for that name.
Ive tried to log out /log in – disable enable extensions etc – but to no avail.
Im stuck, i need the extension to ask me for my twitter details again like it does the first time round.
Help.
Are you going to fix this for OAuth anytime soon? Twitter is shutting off Basic Auth by the end of the month, and the extension doesn’t work at all right now (they shut it off for 10 minutes).
Thank you for the great extension!
Love the extension and it worked perfectly…that was until I changed my Twitter name…stuck on the old account, even after deleting it / re-installing it, clearing cookies / cache, etc…Hopefully this is something that can be fixed b/c it’s a very useful extension. Thanks for your work this. Hopefully I can use it again when you release an update.
I don’t know what I did differently from last time. Logged out of Twitter, deleted cookies, uninstalled the extension, cleared cache and history, and logged back into Twitter. Reinstalled the extension and then got a password request from the Twitter API and things are back on track now!
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i have been using tweetbar for a while, it’s a great little thing. in the last couple of days, i get this ‘error:401 Unauthorized’ only. i didn’t change anything in my twitter account settings. what’s going on? i tried to uninstall and reinstall. no dice. any tip? thanks
I too am having the Error: 401, Unauthorized problem.
I followed the instructions above and still can’t access. It’s a really nice extension if it worked