Twitter Toolbar for Firefox

September 24, 2009

Twitter Toolbar Idea

Filed under: Updates — by camp185 @ 8:21 am
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No updates yet for the Twitter Toolbar, but I recently had a great suggestion by one of the users to give it a quick minimize option. Basically, I will be adding a feature where you simply add a Twitter button to your main toolbar. When you click it, it drops down the Twitter Toolbar, and clicking it again minimizes it. Nice way to keep your screen space.

Also, for those of you into building websites…I just wrote a new post about how I think Google wants websites to be more specific with their content. Hope you spend a few minutes reading it, I spent some extra time writing this one. Google Wants You to Be More Specific

September 7, 2009

Looking for Your Input

Filed under: Updates, Your Input — by camp185 @ 7:43 pm
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I have been busy lately with my primary business of doing my Web Usability and Design Analysis, but I’m thinking it’s time for a new update to the toolbar.

I’m considering adding a search box (fairly easy to do), and a method to support multiple accounts. I would love your feedback on it, so let me know what you would like next for the Twitter Toolbar. Is there something in particular that is bugging you?

August 11, 2009

Twitter Lately

Filed under: Uncategorized — by camp185 @ 11:41 am

Twitter has certainly been sucking eggs lately. It’s still experiencing site outages, it failed to break even 25m monthly visitors in July, it dropped a rank on Alexa, and gotten a few slaps from Corporate America saying that using Twitter during company time is a no no.

July 24, 2009

Win Boss Cart, Premium Shopping Cart Software

Filed under: Uncategorized — by camp185 @ 9:58 am

I just thought I would share this with you. Most of you know my main site, BestWebImage.com. Well I am currently running a contest where you could win a free copy of Boss Cart direct from the developer. Boss Cart is a kick butt shopping cart software, and its retail is $289. If you have  website, or build websites I would at least sign up for the contest. You may not need it today, but you never know what you might need a few months from now.

Anyhow, it’s easy to sign up. All you have to do is comment on this post: http://www.bestwebimage.com/archives/win-a-free-copy-of-boss-cart-premium-shopping-cart-software/ Use your real name, an email so I can contact you if you win, and a brief reason why you might want it. I am picking a winner by random at the end of July 2009.

July 11, 2009

What’s Going On With The Twitter Toolbar

Filed under: Uncategorized — by camp185 @ 9:10 am

I was just spending some time this morning looking at all the sites that are now talking about my Twitter Toolbar, and was getting pretty excited about its gain in popularity.

When I first introduced the toolbar it averaged about 35 downloads a day from my site alone. Now it’s averaging close to 100 downloads a day, and I expect by next week it will be a lot bigger than that. Downloads are occurring all over the place now.

Mozilla has a statistics page for us developers so we can see how the downloads are going. On their site there has only been about 1,000 downloads in total, but another figure is quickly going up, daily users. The daily users figure is going up screaming fast.

Here is how fast the toolbar popularity is growing (based on Mozilla’s stats). For every 100 people that use the toolbar this week, 24 more will use it next week. 24 doesn’t sound like a lot, but this week over 400 people use it daily. That means next week around 500 people will be using it daily. Another way to see it is by looking what the number will be like just a month and a half from now. I’m forecasting over 2,000 people will be using it daily by the end of August. My forecast is based on a very steady trend line based on 18 weeks of data.

Two Big Add-ons Planned

So the two big add-ons planned are search, and sidebar. You can expect the search function to appear on the next updated, and the sidebar action to occur soon after. I have had several requests to have the toolbar just make use of the sidebar instead of an entire web page. Sounds like a good idea to me!

July 1, 2009

New Poll on Best Web Image

Filed under: Uncategorized — by camp185 @ 7:04 am

June 25, 2009

Twitter Toolbar Gaining Momentum

Filed under: Uncategorized — by camp185 @ 11:55 am

I forgot to mention how the Toolbar is starting to gain momentum, especially after verion 1.10 kicked in. I wrote a post about it on my main site, BestWebImage.com, and since I wrote it, the numbers continue to grow at an even more accelerated pace!

See Twitter Toolbar Making Waves post.

June 8, 2009

Twitter Toolbar

Filed under: Announcents — by camp185 @ 8:31 am
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Well the new Twitter Toolbar is up and running. This version, 1.10 is the one I have been waiting to release, and am pretty excited about. In the past the input box had some static messages that you could use to tweet with. They were boring, and pretty meaningless.

With this new version, you are the one that controls what goes pops up in that drop down input box. You basically type whatever you wanted to tweet, and if you want to save it for tweeting again later, just hit enter. To submit your tweet just do what you did in the past, and hit the “What are you doing?” button.

I think this version will be a great update, and I look forward to adding even more function to it in the future. Hope to see you downloading, and tweeting from the Twitter Toolbar!

Download Page for the Twitter Toolbar

March 11, 2009

Twitter Toolbar Update

Filed under: Announcents — by camp185 @ 11:08 am

Happy to see my Twitter Toolbar is now listed in Twitdom’s directory. Twitdom is a directory of popular applications and client software directory for Twitter users, so hopefully the toolbar will be getting even more downloads. If you are using the toolbar please rate it on their site. Thanks!

Also, are you a Mozilla Developer? I need reviews of the toolbar so it can go live. Help me get out of the sandbox, and write a review. Mozilla listing of the Twitter Toolbar

February 7, 2009

Twitter Toolbar for Firefox Update

Filed under: Announcents — by camp185 @ 7:39 pm
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I just wanted to let everyone who is using my Twitter Toolbar, and there are a whole bunch more than last time I updated, that their is a new update. You can now download Twitter Toolbar version 1.09, my latest version.

Latest Updates:

  • Made it so that updates longer than 140 characters transfer you and the update to Twitters main update box for easy editing
  • Added Link to Direct Messages
  • Added Link to Follow Me!
  • Fixed a conflicting access key

Current Issues and Things I Want

Version 1.09 isn’t really the version I wanted to release, but I have been using it for a while myself, and simply put, it’s better than version 1.08. It’s mainly because every time I tweeted before, I always wondered if my tweet was too long. If it’s too long now, it will take you to Twitters Page  with your update in the update box, so it is easy to edit. I also made a few minor changes, and added a couple of menu items.

The next version I plan on releasing will be a much larger improvement. Many of you are begging for more dynamic content. The toolbar needs to read what is going on in your world, and become much more than a fancy submit button. I want it to show number of new replies, messages, and I would really love a scrolling text of live updates. All are possible, but building Firefox add-ons is not my specialty, so please give me time.

Please let me know if you having in problems or have a suggestion!

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