Quicksilver Twitter Plugin
Update (2008.3/5) : More Information is in Trac. Please check and see the latest version there. Text below is about version 1.0, and current version is 1.4 including more features.
I wrote a small Quicksilver plugin to send messages to Twitter directly.

Advantages
- Easy to install. No additional software required to be installed
- Configurable via Quicksilver Preference
- You can send messages containing non-ASCII characters
Download
QSTwitter.zip (1.2) (2008.01.23)
Environment
Tested under Leopard 10.5.1, Quicksilver B53 3814.
Install
Unzip the downloaded file and double-click it. that’s all !
Configuration
You will find “Twitter option” in the Quicksilver preference pane. Enter your screen name and password there.
Usage
- Activate Quicksilver (by Ctrl-SPACE or so)
- type . (period/dot) key to enter text input mode
- type a message
- hit TAB to move into Action
- type “Twitter”
- return !
The more familar you are with it, the faster you can send messages than ever.
Screencast
Seeing is Believing, as you know :) I don’t know why the video is collapsing for first 15 seconds. Sorry for inconvinience.
Code
You can see the code in CodeRepos.
License
Considering…
Restriction
- I could not post messages throught HTTP proxy. Let me know if anyone succeeded to make it.
ChangeLog
- 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.
There seems no comprehensive documents to develop Quicksilver plugin as far as I searched. In order to share my experience to avoid falling into pitfalls, I will write an tutorial developing a Quicksilver plugin under up-to-date environment later.
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Comments:17
- Shaun Krisher 08-01-09 (Wed) 8:54
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I just tried it a couple times, and every time it runs, it works, but it crashes QS!
I am running leopard, though.
- mootoh 08-01-10 (Thu) 4:01
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Shaun:
Thanks for using QSTwitter, and sorry for your inconvenience.
What does it mean “it works, but it crashes QS”? I guess updating to Twitter works well, but after that, QS crashes. Is that right?
If you send me a crash report of QS in that case, I will check it.
- Shaun Krisher 08-01-17 (Thu) 4:53
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I’ve got a crashlog for you. I am running B51 3800, on Tiger, not Leopard.
Therein lies the problem, somehow? Where can I send the crash log?
- mootoh 08-01-18 (Fri) 18:19
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Shaun:
please mail me the crash log (mail address is in the left sidebar of this blog).
- Aaron V. 08-01-21 (Mon) 13:19
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Hi, I noticed that if my text contains a plus sign “+”, the plus does not show up on twitter. I’m guessing this is because the plus is not getting escaped in the HTTP query string and thus is being interpreted as a space?
Thanks for your work, btw– other than this problem, the plugin works great for me!
- mootoh 08-01-22 (Tue) 0:15
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Aaron V:
Thank you for using QSTwitter, and sorry for you convinience. I’ll fix it in the next release.
- jethro 08-01-23 (Wed) 1:11
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Great job. I have been waiting to find something like this, since I use both twitter and QS all the time. And, it works in tiger, as well.
- mootoh 08-01-23 (Wed) 1:34
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jethro:
glad to hear you are enjoying it !
- angie 08-03-02 (Sun) 9:47
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Hello. Great work! I love the idea, but it’s not working for me :S I’ve installed the plugin correctly (I see it in the plugin directory, 46k), and typed in the text, and selected twitter in the action pane, then enter. Nothing happens!
I’m using Tiger. Could that cause a problem?
- mootoh 08-03-02 (Sun) 16:17
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angie:
Thank you for your interest in QSTwitter :)
I tested QSTwitter only on Leopard, not Tiger. As the recent version of QSTwitter is built with RubyCocoa, if you install RubyCocoa to your Tiger environment, it may work (I have not tried it yet).
- kondrat Kielar 08-03-17 (Mon) 1:32
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It crashes :( first time while i write messege it is ok, second time design of qs freezes :( Leo 10.5.2 Imac G5 no isight B54 3815… :( pls help
- mootoh 08-03-17 (Mon) 1:58
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kondrat:
Thank you for using QSTwitter, and sorry for your inconvenience. Please refer to this Trac page to setup it.
- James Doc 08-04-15 (Tue) 5:45
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Hey!
Great app, really love the idea, I might actually start using Twitter properly because of this! However I have found that the app causes QS to crash under 10.5.2… any ideas of how to fix this?
Thanks,
james
- mootoh 08-04-15 (Tue) 8:34
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James:
Thank you for your attention!
QSTwitter was updated to version 1.4, see this instruction. Maybe it crashes because:
- json library not found (to fix this, type following in command line: sudo /usr/bin/gem install json)
- it would crash at Quicksilver’s startup time sometimes…
I could help you if you sent a log. Open /Application/Utilities/Console.app and filter log as “twitter”, save it, and please mail it to me.
- james 08-04-15 (Tue) 19:49
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Ah that works! Fantastic app :) love it! love it! love it!
- ikem_staR 08-05-16 (Fri) 7:29
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i am loving this. twitter disappears into the interface now. genius! my messages come back as growl notifications through adium! i am in love. wd buy you a mercedes-benz if i cd download 1.4, as your trac has 404′d ;-) cheers.
- Dev 08-08-02 (Sat) 14:08
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Brilliant! thanks so much!
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