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kaplanmyrth shared an idea in Posterous on December 21, 2009 13:29:

Create a custom tweet when posting a new post

I sent this to Brett at posterous by email but I thought I'd post it here as well so the community could comment.

I've realized how much more I tweet than post to my blog lately, and I thought I'd try to shift the balance more to blogging since posterous autoposting takes care of sending to twitter anyhow.

Now the problem I'm encountering is that when I create a post either through email or the bookmarklet, the tweet doesn't end up looking how I want it to look -- it's stuck at the default (or the twitter "custom footer" I've set) with the title and a cut-off summary of the article. I could do better if I could write a custom tweet for the post, but that involves posting to posterous as a private post, getting the url for the post, and manually tweeting it ==> many downsides.

But I notice that when I post a *comment*, I can check the twitter checkbox and then type in a custom 140 char message *right there*!

That made me think -- it would be *awesome* if the bookmarklet included the option to type a custom 140 character message for twitter (and other 140char microblogging platforms) -- or maybe a 120 character message, leaving room for the short URL at the end. The field could be below the "Comment" field, or maybe under Advanced Options >> Autopost.

Or to also allow custom tweet text in posts by email, you could adopt the ((tag:)) syntax and add ((tweet:)) or ((message:)) or ((msg:)) in emails as the custom tweet?

A change like that would make it much easier to use Posterous for much more tweeting.

Andy Kaplan-Myrth replied on December 08, 2009 03:25 to the problem "cant login" in GlueToGo:

Is this problem still pending or has it been solved? I get the same error message.

Andy Kaplan-Myrth replied on November 25, 2009 17:08 to the question "support for google chrome?" in Zemanta:

Any update on the possibility for a Chrome extension, now that they're fairly well developed under the latest dev releases?

Andy Kaplan-Myrth replied on November 24, 2009 17:40 to the idea "http://ping.fm/pingout/ as bookmarklet/popup" in Ping.fm:

Great stuff, @sucka99! Official Rep @Adam has been following up on a related thread so I've crosslinked over to here.

Thanks!

A comment on the idea "http://ping.fm/pingout/ as bookmarklet/popup" in Ping.fm:

Methinks that link should be PingDash... – Andy Kaplan-Myrth, on November 24, 2009 17:39

Andy Kaplan-Myrth replied on November 24, 2009 17:38 to the idea "Pingout page should accept URL parameters" in Ping.fm:

Actually, it turns out the Dashboard page *does* take url parameters -- it's only the PingOut page that doesn't. Myopiclunacy.com has an updated version of the bookmarklet that feeds the highlighted text to the Dashboard page in a popup window as a workaround to the PingOut problem. See the GetSatisfaction thread here and the Myopiclunacy page here.

Andy Kaplan-Myrth replied on November 23, 2009 18:30 to the idea "Pingout page should accept URL parameters" in Ping.fm:

Yes, that's right -- I don't like the "url - comment" format of the PingThis page. I prefer the "message" format of the PingOut page (and the Dashboard). [in fact, given that the Dashboard has the Message format, the PingThis page seems odd and mismatched with the rest of Ping.fm. Perhaps that accounts for why custom groups aren't even on that page... it's just out of date with the rest of ping.fm?].

But I can imagine that other people might like the PingThis page -- just not me. That's why I thought it would be nice to have an alternative bookmarklet, to give people more choice.

Andy Kaplan-Myrth replied on November 20, 2009 15:58 to the idea "Pingout page should accept URL parameters" in Ping.fm:

Thanks for responding. I'll try to explain.

Pingplus gets selected text (yay!) but goes to the "Ping This" page (with the "link" and "title" fields -- odd for twitter-style messaging).

The Mentoliptus pingout bookmarklet (here) goes to the Ping Out page (with a Message field -- yay!) but we can't make it prepopulate that field with selected text until the PingOut page accepts URL parameters. And since the Ping This page accepts URL parameters, the idea was to make the PingOut page accept them too -- and maybe the Dashboard as well -- why not, eh?

Is that more clear?

Andy Kaplan-Myrth replied on November 19, 2009 15:54 to the idea "http://ping.fm/pingout/ as bookmarklet/popup" in Ping.fm:

The Mentoliptus pingout bookmarklet would be perfect if it could prepopulate the message with selected text the way PingPlus does. Unfortunately, the pingout page doesn't accept URL parameters. I've suggested that idea here.

The other big improvement would be displaying the Pingout in a z-layer popup on the page instead of a separate window (like how the TBUZZ bookmarlet pops up. That would be the perfect ping.fm bookmarklet!

Andy Kaplan-Myrth marked one of wonderfullyrich's replies in Ping.fm as useful. wonderfullyrich replied to the idea "http://ping.fm/pingout/ as bookmarklet/popup". Andy Kaplan-Myrth and 4 other people think it's one of the best replies.

Andy Kaplan-Myrth shared an idea in Ping.fm on November 19, 2009 15:49:

Pingout page should accept URL parameters

It would be useful if the Dashboard page and the Pingout page would accept URL parameters to prepopulate at least the Message field (if not the group dropdown as well). This would allow bookmarklets and other links to make much better use of those pages. The page that the PingThis bookmarklet goes to already accepts URL parameters but doesn't provide nearly as nice an interface as Pingout, or even the Dashboard.

Andy Kaplan-Myrth started following the idea "No Javascript is a limiting factor for many people. Here's some ideas on integration." in Posterous.

Andy Kaplan-Myrth replied on November 12, 2009 15:59 to the idea "Posterous could be the TwitPic for Laconica based systems with very little work!" in Posterous:

How soon? BTW, Laconica is now StatusNet and has enough funding that it is going to continue to be a major player long term, so it would be great if Posterous would support it!

Andy Kaplan-Myrth marked one of karl3's replies in Grooveshark as useful. karl3 replied to the idea "Last.fm scrobbler".

Andy Kaplan-Myrth marked one of karl3's replies in Grooveshark as useful. karl3 replied to the idea "Last.fm scrobbler".

Andy Kaplan-Myrth replied on October 22, 2009 14:05 to the problem "Bookmarklet not working in Chrome 4.0.222.12" in Zemanta:

Hurray! That solves it!

Andy Kaplan-Myrth marked one of Marko Mrdjenovic's replies in Zemanta as useful. Marko Mrdjenovic replied to the problem "Bookmarklet not working in Chrome 4.0.222.12".

Andy Kaplan-Myrth replied on October 22, 2009 01:53 to the problem "Bookmarklet not working in Chrome 4.0.222.12" in Zemanta:

Hang on -- strange discovery. It seems to not be working on GMail, but it /does/ work on other sites (tested just now on a Wordpress.com blog).

But last week it definitely worked for me in standard GMail as well as in my Google Apps domain email.

Can anybody confirm *that*?

Andy Kaplan-Myrth replied on October 22, 2009 00:47 to the problem "Bookmarklet not working in Chrome 4.0.222.12" in Zemanta:

I did try generating a new one with no luck. As a test I also copied and pasted the one that doesn't work in Chrome into Firefox and it did work there.

Can anybody else confirm this is happening to them in the latest dev channel version of Chrome, 4.0.222.12?

Andy Kaplan-Myrth reported a problem in Zemanta on October 21, 2009 15:04:

Bookmarklet not working in Chrome 4.0.222.12

The Zemanta bookmarklet is not working in Chrome 4.0.222.12. It worked a few days ago but as of the developer update to 4.0.222.12 on Oct 15 the bookmarklet no longer works. No response when the bookmarklet is clicked or when the code is pasted directly into the address bar.