Twitbin 2.0 tips

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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.

9 thoughts on “Twitbin 2.0 tips”

  1. very nice update. thanks~

    not sure if this is the right place for this but:

    i noticed a bug(?) since the last version that hasn’t bee resolved yet. i’m not sure if it’s intentional, but when all 140 characters are used up in the tweet input box the left and right arrows no longer work. neither does the delete key. only the backspace key.

    it makes it a bit difficult to edit/spell check.

    keep up the good work.

  2. Pensketch, thanks for letting us know about this, we hadn’t noticed. We’ll go ahead and take care of this as soon as possible.

  3. Hi there,

    I’m currently experimenting Twitbin, and it looks like a good replacement to Twitterfox which I’ve been using so far (I think standalone apps for Twitter won’t work for me ;) ).

    Maybe I’m biased for having used Twitterfox, but I’d like to suggest a feature: a little icon or something, on the statusbar, with nothing but new friends’ tweets / @replies / DMs counts. I’m one of those people who use the sidebar for other stuff as well (bookmarks), and it would be nice to have a little insight on what’s going on on Twitbin even when it is hidden by bookmarks, or history, or whatever. As anyone ever asked you this? Are you considering it, is it possible?

    Thanks and congratulations for Twitbin.

  4. Oh, and another thing I noticed: it would be nice that, when clicking “Reply” on the Direct Messages view, the textbox were filled with “D someone” instead of “@someone”. :-)

  5. I’ve used twitbin form some time now as the only option for Twitter use behind my school district’s filters. With the update, twitbin is now blocked as well. Any suggestions? If I uninstall the new version, can I find and reinstall the older version?

  7. I notice I can see the last 20 or so tweets from people but there is no way to scroll back in time. This lakes the extension a lot less useful since I don’t look at twitter every two hours (which is as far back as I could see…).