TwitterGadget is a clean, robust, web 2.0 style client for Twitter.com, designed to eliminate the need to install third-party applications to monitor and submit status updates to Twitter via your iGoogle homepage. TwitterGadget is completely AJAX based, meaning, at the user-specified refresh interval, only the status update content is refreshed in-line, on the gadget page. This means reduced bandwidth utilization between you and Twitter.com, while providing for a more user-friendly experience. TwitterGadget enables the user to toggle on/off various display elements such as user thumbnails, timestamps, and post sources. Refresh intervals can be set from 3 to 30 minutes, or manual only. Additional information about a poster is available, at a glance, by hovering over their thumbnail image. When the status input box is empty, you can issue @ replies by clicking on the username of a poster in your timeline, or a direct message by clicking on their name a second time. A third click clears the status message area. Clicking the username of another poster in your timeline once you have populated your status message will simply append an @+username to the end of your current message, facilitating correspondence to multiple followers. All URLs are hyperlinked in the timeline, and any @+username references, when clicked in the timeline, take you to the respective user's Twitter page. Insert symbols, dingbats and emoticons into your tweets using the TwitterGadget pulldown menu, accessible via the down arrow button located in the bottom left hand corner of the status box.  Add TwitterGadget to your Gmail account using Gmail Labs! TwitterGadget auto-detects when you've inserted the gadget into your Gmail account and displays a smaller footprint version. Click Here for instructions on enabling custom gadgets for Gmail. For the 'Add a Gadget by URL' input box in Gmail, enter: http://www.twittergadget.com/gadget.xml
Give TwitterGadget a try. We think you'll enjoy using it as much as we enjoyed putting it together. Like to see a new feature, have a suggestion? Send us an email using the feedback form provided on the gadget, and we'll be glad to take a look, or, use our feedback form. |
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