After a comment from Maria asking me not to give up on Twitter, I decided to add a couple more friends and try using TwitBin which I learned about from Kent Newsome when he said:
This is the application I’ve been looking for to make Twitter use more integrated with my browser.
I like the plugin quite a bit. It lets you view all of the little (what would they be called, twits?) twits from the public pool or just your friends.
My only complaint is that when you click on the links from those individual twits, they always open in the current window and the current tab. I’m not really sure why a Firefox plugin would not interact more friendly with the Firefox tabs.
But there is good news. The feature will be added soon.
I did notice something about Twitter itself that seems like it has changed recently, too. I love that. People can still post links to there own stuff, but it should prevent a little bit of spam.
Maybe Twitter can be the place to post life fluff like I thought MySpace would end up being.
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Twits are called “tweets.” I used to call them twitterings — you never know this stuff until you read it elsewhere or someone just tells you.
You should be able to right-click on a link and choose Open Link in New Tab from the contextual menu that appears. (It’s Control-Click for Mac users who don’t have a two-button mouse.)
I’m going to check out TwitBin now. I was surprised that it wasn’t on the FireFox extensions site when I looked this morning. Thanks for providing the direct link.
The righ-click doesn’t work from the TwitBin extension. Getting that to work is in their development plan, though.