PageTweet

PageTweet is a bookmarklet born out of a desire to have a simple way to post the current page you’re looking at in your browser to Twitter. There are other solutions to do this, but all either required you to store your Twitter username in the bookmarklet, or for the post to go through a third party service which itself would store your Twitter credentials. PageTweet does neither of these things.

The first time you attempt to use PageTweet after a browser restart, it will ask for your Twitter password. This is Twitter itself asking for your password, not me or my servers. At no point does my server see your Twitter password – it’s between you and them. PageTweet requires no sign-up or configuration to do its job.

To add PageTweet to your browser, right click the link below and select ‘Bookmark this link’ (or other similar wording), or drag it to your bookmarks toolbar in your browser. Then just select it from your bookmarks when you want to post a page to Twitter: PageTweet will appear in the top right corner of your browser window, and create a short URL for the page using Bit.ly.

PageTweet This!

PageTweet has been tested in the following browsers, please add a comment to this page if you have success using it in others:

  • Firefox 3 (Mac)
  • Safari 4 (Mac)
  • Google Chrome
  • Opera 9.64
  • http://brendancartledge.com Brentoe

    Nice one dude, is there any chance of a small close button for those people like me who press “PageTweet This!” then realise that they don’t actually want to tweet it, but don’t want it to stay in the top right corner? Anal.. I know ;)

  • http://bradkellett.com Brad Kellett

    I’ve never thought of that, I’ll see what I can do. You can also just refresh the page and it’ll go away.