Yesterday the folks at Lifehacker passed along a great tip for posting to Twitter using a keyword bookmark in Firefox and I quote:

To create this for yourself, add a new bookmark with a name and keyword of your choice and set the URL to the following—the %s will be replaced with whatever you type after the keyword in the address bar.

http://twitter.com/?status=%s

Since I’m a heavy Launchy user, it’s a top 5 application for me, I wanted to include it in my list of shortcuts a quick edit and it’s up and running.

To set this up, open up your Launchy options screen and then click on the Plugins tab

For the Weby plugin add a line (click the ‘+’ button) with the following attributes:

Name: Go ahead and pick one, I kept it short with just a ‘t’
URL: http://twitter.com/
Query: ?status=%s

It should look something like below:

Launchy's Weby Configuration Line

Click the ‘Ok’ button and you should be good to go. In fact I tested this last night with the following tweet:

Launchy Test Tweet

Just a quick side note – you’ll need to already be logged into Twitter for this to work (you probably already are) and it appears to only work with Firefox, (you are using Firefox right?).

Do you tweet?  Follow me at http://twitter.com/scotnewbury

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