Turn your Firefox tab into a Twitter Client

There are indeed many Twitter clients, but I just like to experiment. Instead of desktop applications, I am trying to use Firefox as much as possible.

Twitter home page doesn’t provide any functionality. And any other web solution, didn’t meet my needs.

And what I need:

• timeline updater
• retweet button
• new tweets notification
• unread replies notification

All of these goals, I have managed to achieve with Greasemonkey. Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension that allows you to customize the way webpages look and function by using little scripts (called userscripts) that are executed each time you visit a particular page. There are hundreds of free scripts ready for download from userscripts.org.

So first you need to install Greasemonkey. After installation, restart Firefox and return to this page to install the scripts.

UserScripts

Twitter Timeline updater - Manual/auto update twitter timeline. This scripts is great. Besides timeline update, it shows the number of unread tweets in the Firefox tab.

Twitter Fantastico - adds a retweet button to every tweet.

Unread Replies - this script also has "Mentions". Mentions shows the tweets, that aren't @replies, but contains your name.

Enhance Twitter - adds search box on the top of the page.

Sidebar Replies - shows replies in the sidebar

One thing is annoying - each time you open your Twitter home page, you must enter a user name and password for some scripts. But, I always keep one tab opened, so I have to do that only once, after starting Firefox.

That’s it, now you have a fully functional Twitter client in a single Firefox tab. Enjoy!!!