Home

QSTwitter

A small Quicksilver plugin to send messages to Twitter directly.

Features

• Easy to install.
• Configurable via Quicksilver Preference.
• Send messages containing non-ASCII characters.
• Collect your friends in Quicksilver catalog, show their icons in Quicksilver interface.
• Reply quickly.

Download

• QSTwitter.zip, 1.7.1, 2009.11.16.

Requrements

Tested under Quicksilver B53 3814 / Leopard 10.5.2, Quicksilver B56A7 3825 / Snow Leopard 10.6.1.

Install

Unzip the downloaded file and double-click it.

Configuration

You will find Twitter option in the Quicksilver preference pane.
Enter your screen name and password there.

Catalog your followings

QSTwitter collects your followings in its catalog.
Go to Quicksilver preference, switch to catalog tab, select Modules, then you can see Twitter following row there.
Refresh it may take several minutes (and sometimes crashes Quicksilver), then you can auto-complete your followings in Quicksilver interface.

Trigger

You can use QSTwitter more quickly if you use Quicksilver Trigger.

After building catalog, follow the steps like below images.
TIPS: ’’Target’’ item can be cleared by ‘’Cmd-X’’.

Usage

Basic

1. Activate Quicksilver (by Ctrl-SPACE or so)
2. type . (period/dot) key to enter text input mode
3. type a message
4. hit TAB to move into Action
5. type ’’Twitter’’
6. return !

By Trigger

1. Press Your Trigger
2. type a message and return (that’s it!)

Reply

1. type your following name (it will be auto-completed)
2. hit TAB to move into Action
3. type ‘’reply that’’
4. type a message and return.

Screencast

Basic usage:

Advanced usage:

Restriction

• It will crash Quicksilver on first installation (there should be some bugs in cataloging followings).

Feedback

Leave comments/trackback here .

Change Log

• 1.7.1 (2009.09.28) : fixed the bug that tweets containing ‘&’ was not posted correctly.
• 1.7 (2009.09.28) : add Growl support.
• 1.6 (2009.09.28) : fixed the bug that following/followers were opposite.
• 1.5 (2008.09.14) : rewritten in Objective-C, use synchronous HTTP POST
• 1.4 (2008.03.01) : Triggerable!
• 1.3 (2008.02.22) : friends completion, Reply Action, HTTP proxy env support.
• 1.2 (2008.01.23) : fixes the bug that ‘+’ is not shown in status, uses pretty girl icon .
• 1.1 (2007.12.22) : now it shows “QSTwitter” in your post on “from …” .
• 1.0 (2007.12.13) : initial release.

Source Code License

revised BSD.