We’ve received many concerns about people no longer being able to use Twitbin at their office. Since we don’t want you to suffer, we’ll give you a small workaround. It’s pretty easy and should let you tweet again. Here’s how to do it on Firefox 3.0.

In your browser, open http://twitbin.com/beta.

This will be version 1.0 in a standard page view. Now bookmark the page from the bookmarks dropdown menu. Name it whatever you like (we’ll use twitbin for this example).

Then go to the bookmarks dropdown, and click on Organize Bookmarks. On the left hand side you will see your bookmarks organized in whatever way have been setting it up. Click on Bookmarks Menu in the left hand, and find the bookmark you just made (in our case named twitbin). Click on the name and on the bottom click the More button. This will lower a new part of options, with a little checkbox on the very bottom that says “Load this bookmark in a sidebar”.

Close the Organize Bookmars box, and go back to your Bookmarks dropdown. Find your bookark (twitbin), click on it, and Voila! It loads! Enjoy and let us know if you still have problems.

So now that Twitbin 2.0 is out, let us give you a few tips on how to appreciate all the functionalities. You’ll notice right away that the design has been updated. This includes a few new tabs as well as a few new icons under the your avatar.

Lets begin with the icons under the avatars. There are four of them, beginning with the Retweet function displayed by the double arrow (looks like a fast forward button), which allows you to click on someone’s tweet, and then hit enter and you’ll retweet while giving attribution to the person.

Next up is the Favorite icon. If you like a tweet, either someone said something funny, or clever, or interesting, or even linked to something you don’t want to forget, hit the little heart, and it will be stored in your Favorites section of Twitbin. Later, you can see it by clicking the little heart in the tabs section, to the left of PUBLIC.

After this we have the @ symbol, which allows you to reply to someone. If you see someone ask a poll question, or @ messages you, you just click on the @ of that specific tweet, and just type what you want to say, and hit enter. It’s that simple.

The last icon here is the i, which is a link to the users homepage. Remember that this will only show if that user has a homepage listed on Twitter. If there is no homepage, you will not see an icon. This icon allows you to click on it, and in a new tab in Firefox, that user’s homepage will open.

Now let’s go up to the highest bar, directly below where it says Twitbin. This contains a few different icons. The first is the little Twitbin icon. This will take you straight to Twitbin.com in a new tab. From here you can see our latest blog post and see if we have any updates. For any more information, be sure to visit our blog.

Following this is the little man icon, which is your login information. Here you put in your twitter information and can select to Remember me on this computer, and also check to follow Twitbin.

To the right is the wrench, which are your preferences. Here you can filter the tweets you see by seeing either only Friends, Replies, Direct, Favorites, or Public. You chose what you want to see. You can also chose the refresh rate which allows you to get

Last but not least is the new “tweet this” functionality. Its hidden in your right click contextual menu. It shortens any page you choose and puts the link in your Twitbin input box.