I find it annoying to go to twitter.com to compose a tweet. Or to launch TweetDeck.
I’m sure there’re add-ons to the browser out there, but the more add-ons/extensions you use, the slower Chrome gets.
Solution: quick hack to setup Twitter as search engine within Chrome.
1. Right-click on the address/search bar in Chrome, click on “Edit search engines…”
2. Scroll all the way down, and type in Twitter for search engine; “tweet” for keyword; and the following URL for the third field:
https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=%s
3. Close the ‘Options – Search Engines’ tab and try it out!
Simply type in “tweet [your tweet here]” in the address bar to compose a tweet!
This “search” redirect to the following page where you can edit/submit the tweet:
Hope this was helpful!
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