Chromed Bird – Twitter Extension - 1.2.0

by cezarsa
Extension meant for Developer Builds of Google Chrome 4.0+
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Chromed Bird is an open source Chromium extension that allows you to follow your Twitter account using Google Chrome.

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As the official Google Chrome extensions gallery is open I’ll STOP updating this website.
Please click here to download Chromed Bird.

I’d like to say thanks to all you guys from chromeextensions.org for all your hard work. But now with the official gallery available there seem to be no point in keep updating multiple websites.

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Current Features

  • Follow your friends timeline and navigate through older tweets;
  • Tweets caching to avoid hitting Twitter’s API rate limit;
  • Compose, reply, and RT tweets;
  • Create short URLs directly from the extension;
  • The extension updates itself as soon as new versions are available;
  • Tracking read / unread tweets;
  • Notifying user whenever new tweets arrive.

Change Log:

1.0.1 (2009-12-03)

* Fixing bug causing tweets to stay on the timeline forever (only after tweaking with the options page)

1.0 (2009-12-03)

* Integration with URL Shortener services, including an option to shorten the current page
* Ability to use Twitter's retweet feature (old RT still available through 'share' option)
* Showing 'from' and 'in reply to' information
* Making some options available through a bare-bones options page
* Lots of performance tweaks
* Lots of improvements with keyboard navigation
* Improving error messages when calls to Twitter's API fail
* Big cleanup reducing extension size
* Fixing bug that would incorrectly identify hashtags inside URLs
* Fixing bug causing replies without in_reply_to_id
* Fixing bug when denying OAuth authorization
* Fixing some UI bugs

0.51 (2009-11-24)

* This version fixes some bugs introduced with OAuth authentication, it also
  fixes an old bug regarding popup resizing.

0.5 (2009-11-23)

* Tabs allowing you to check your @replies and direct messages
* Switching authentication to OAuth (now Twitter shows 'from Chromed Bird' yay!)
* Showing badge text with new tweets count
* Correctly handling replies to a specific tweet
* Fixing freezing after sending a direct message

0.4 (2009-11-17)

* Adding theme support and a new default theme (Thanks Will Ryan)
* Improved navigation with an endless scrollbar intelligently fetching older tweets
* Switching to home_timeline, RT's are now displayed correctly
* Closing the popup doesn't erase tweets being composed
* Better tweet timestamp handling with relative dates
* Lots of small fixes in cache consistency

0.3 (2009-11-06)

* Tracking read / unread tweets
* Notifying users when new tweets are available
* Adding a "Remember me" option
* Connecting to Twitter's API through HTTPS
* [FIX] Limiting profile image size.
* [FIX] Password field now allow any special characters.

Older Versions

  1. Version 0.2
    Compatible With
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    Chromed Bird is an open source Chromium extension that allows you to follow your Twitter account using Google Chrome.

    Change Log:

    None

  2. Version 0.3
    Compatible With
    Developer Builds

    Chromed Bird is an open source Chromium extension that allows you to follow your Twitter account using Google Chrome.

    Change Log:

  3. Version 0.4
    Compatible With
    Developer Builds
    Developer Builds (Linux)

    Chromed Bird is an open source Chromium extension that allows you to follow your Twitter account using Google Chrome.

    Change Log:

  4. Version 0.5
    Compatible With
    Developer Builds
    Developer Builds (Linux)

    Chromed Bird is an open source Chromium extension that allows you to follow your Twitter account using Google Chrome.

    Change Log:

  5. Version 0.51
    Compatible With
    Developer Builds
    Developer Builds (Linux)

    Chromed Bird is an open source Chromium extension that allows you to follow your Twitter account using Google Chrome.

    Change Log:

  6. Version 1.0
    Compatible With

    Chromed Bird is an open source Chromium extension that allows you to follow your Twitter account using Google Chrome.

    Change Log:

  7. Version 1.0
    Compatible With
    Developer Builds
    Developer Builds (Linux)

    Chromed Bird is an open source Chromium extension that allows you to follow your Twitter account using Google Chrome.

    Change Log:

Reviews

  1. rmean says:
    November 29, 2009 at 9:14 am

    just change the “0.2″ part in the link to “0.4″, kamol

  2. cezarsa says:
    November 29, 2009 at 10:02 am

    @Alex @rmean @kamol There seem to be some issues in the way Iron 4 handles communication between content scripts and the extension. I believe that they’ll fix this eventually, meanwhile, I plan in offering a way to manually enter Twitter’s OAuth PIN if everything else fails. Hold on for the next release.

    @Mike I don’t own a Mac, so I can’t really test it there. However, there’s no platform specific code in this extension, so it really should work. If it isn’t it’s probably because of some bug in Chromium itself that should get fixed in future releases.

  3. Sushi says:
    November 30, 2009 at 3:47 am

    Some options would make it a perfect plugin. For instance, I don’t really like the way it makes that twitter bird ‘Red’ when a new tweet arrives. I should be able to customize whther I want it to turn red or not, or may be some other color perhaps.

    Other than that, its perfect.

  4. André Oliveira says:
    November 30, 2009 at 10:04 am

    Very good extension :)

  5. Devon says:
    December 1, 2009 at 4:03 pm

    Can you please update the change log?

  6. Devon says:
    December 1, 2009 at 4:04 pm

    And maybe some extension image would be nice :)

  7. Ben says:
    December 3, 2009 at 1:20 am

    woah woah woah
    this just tried to update on me….
    and Chrome warned me it wanted access to my browser history and private webpage data
    wtf cezarsa? please explain.

  8. pgkrzywy says:
    December 3, 2009 at 7:25 am

    I must say, that this extension is great :) i now that its not some twitter client, but if in next versions you could add twitter lists support and some way to check people conversations or twitter search it would be no need to use client at all :)

  9. smore says:
    December 3, 2009 at 8:45 am

    hi cezarsa,
    v1.0.1 working as a charm, thank you! Wonderful work, just what we are used to =)

  10. Mortal2God says:
    December 3, 2009 at 1:33 pm

    Hi cezarsa

    Thanks for the great extension it is working perfectly with no problems at all. I have a suggestion to make though. Will it be possible to leave the user open the links from the tweets in a tab without having to leave the extension? Either by right click or drag and drop?

  11. pgkrzywy says:
    December 3, 2009 at 4:15 pm

    yeah, rt option :D
    one thing though:
    is there chance to include your own post to @ list in Bird? because i got replies, and want to see for which twitt it was ;)

  12. pgkrzywy says:
    December 3, 2009 at 4:29 pm

    sorry, send to fast ;
    i know that @mentions are just like in twitter website, i would prefer it different mysefl only ;)
    anyway: when someone mention you from people you actually follow, you get number ’2′ new tweets – one in timeline, one in @mention list, which is actually the same tweet.

  13. Julio Angel Ortiz says:
    December 3, 2009 at 9:21 pm

    Amazing extension for Chrome for Twitter lovers. Absolutely applaud the work done on this extension is a must-have for my Chrome setup.

  14. hellwen says:
    December 4, 2009 at 2:01 am

    I hope Chromed brid can support third party API which can correct request tweets from twitter

  15. kar296 says:
    December 4, 2009 at 3:04 am

    Hi,

    Plugin looks great. Installed it. but I’m unable to find the chrome bird icon to the side of the address bar, but chrome://extensions shows it as installed. And there’s no change even if I reload. I’m using chrome 4.0+ dev build in linux. Thanks!

  16. kuber says:
    December 6, 2009 at 11:22 pm

    a wonderful plug-in! my first choice twitter client. Would like to see more shorten url service integrated cuz now the built-in ones are banned in China.

  17. Alex says:
    December 8, 2009 at 3:48 am

    New Version still not work with Iron 4 Beta :(

  18. John says:
    December 8, 2009 at 1:27 pm

    really nice extension here. just wish it would retreive twitpics so i dont have to click the link to see what the pic is.

  19. jmartcougar says:
    December 9, 2009 at 12:15 pm

    very nice chrome extension and glad that i can get this without a developer build of chrome

  20. Leandro says:
    December 9, 2009 at 2:45 pm

    I’ve got this message:

    Ouch… Something bad happened to Chrome Bird while calling Twitter’s
    API.

    Please try clicking the icon again to restart the authentication process.

  21. Leandro says:
    December 9, 2009 at 2:45 pm

    I’ve got this message:

    Ouch… Something bad happened to Chrome Bird while calling Twitter’s
    API.

    Please try clicking the icon again to restart the authentication process.

    Ubuntu 8.10 and the latest version of Google Chrome

  22. kanu kukreja says:
    December 10, 2009 at 1:52 am

    Can you please add the option of “Add to fav” in this.

  23. TinoGo says:
    December 10, 2009 at 7:49 pm

    It would be really good if there is an option that bird-twitter won’t close when i press a link.
    and also it would be really really good that collects twett’s and marks them unread when your computer/broswer is shuted down!

  24. JBantha says:
    December 31, 2009 at 2:32 pm

    I just don’t stop getting this error:

    “Unexpected error “Not found”(Not Found) retweeting. Try again”

    every time i try to Re-tweet, it does not matter how much I try it…

    any possible cause, solution, help over here? ^^ thanks

    i love your extension

  25. JD says:
    January 6, 2010 at 10:37 am

    have gotten this error every time i try to sync my twitter account with chromed bird:

    Woah there!
    This page is no longer valid. It looks like someone already used the token information you provided. Please return to the site that sent you to this page and try again … it was probably an honest mistake.

    and i can’t get a manual pin either. i’ve never seen one. looks good, just wish i could get it to work.

  26. Rudolf says:
    January 11, 2010 at 10:30 am

    Is there any way for me to add

    http://twitrp.com/asu/?module=ShortURL&file=Add&mode=API&url=

    as an extra url shortener?

    How can I do this?

  27. erlika says:
    February 8, 2010 at 6:36 pm

    i’ve just installed google chrome and this twitter plugins. but when i tried to avtivate it, i’ve been aksed ‘Twitter’s OAuth Pin”. Where could I get the pin?

    thanks before

  28. Chromed Bird « Developing stuff says:
    February 12, 2010 at 6:05 am

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  29. Erin says:
    February 17, 2010 at 2:09 pm

    Is there away that this extension can support viewing two twitter accounts at once?

  30. Frank says:
    February 26, 2010 at 12:34 pm

    Great extension. 1 small thing though: is it possible to make the menu collapse when you click the ‘Mark all as read’-button?

  31. princess88 says:
    March 2, 2010 at 9:09 am

    awsoommeeee

  32. JonnyP says:
    April 21, 2010 at 11:03 am

    First and foremost this twitter extension is really easy to use and works great in chrome. I really like how all the tweets hang out in there … just in case I want to go back and read something. I do have a question … is there a way to have a tweet lose it’s color if it’s been read? Meaning the blue color in Unified, goes to white when I read that tweet.

  33. jeffrazak says:
    October 12, 2010 at 6:56 pm

    Great extension. But how do I enable the link shortener?

    thnx.

  34. tomotomo says:
    November 16, 2010 at 7:59 pm

    useful
    i wanna select Japanese lang.

  35. genuinely17 says:
    November 17, 2010 at 7:58 pm

    Can you also please update The Bird such that it can also support twitlonger and the likes? Thanks! :)

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