Re-tweet with Comments Made Easier

I have recently jumped into the world of Twitter and was surprised to find that from the Twitter web page that if you want to re-tweet a post from one of the people you are following to the people that follow you, there is no way to add a comment to the re-tweet without doing a manual copy/paste to a new tweet.


I'm sure there are a number of applications that allow for this functionality, but that defeats the purpose of using the web page to some degree.  For those of us that want to continue to use a browser to tweet (and re-tweet) and use the Google Chrome browser there is a very simple solution, Chromed Bird.

Chromed Bird is a Chrome extension for Twitter that extends the web page functionality to a browser extension with a number of features:

Upload images from inside the extension
Change extension's locale from inside the options page
Expand the original tweet replies are referring to
Follow / Unfollow users by using the inline user actions menu
Browse tweets from a specific user directly inside the extension
Add and remove timeline tabs "on the fly" using the new right-click context menu
Create custom search queries that will update automatically
Preview image links by hovering them
See all your tweets in an unified timeline
Follow your timelines (including @mentions, lists, DMs and favorites) and navigate through your tweets
Compose, reply, RT, share, favorite and delete tweets
Create short URLs within the extension
Preview shortened URLs before clicking them
Track read / unread tweets
Notify user whenever new tweets arrive
The Chromed Bird extension can be installed from the Chromed Bird page linked above.  The first time the extension is run, it will confirm access to your twitter account and then it should be setup and ready to go.  Once installed, you will see a small Twitter bird icon that opens the extension and indicates when new tweets are available.

Any Chrome users that want to interact with Twitter directly from the browser with the functionality above should try Chromed Bird as an alternative to the Twitter web page or other stand-alone clients.

Add a comment with the Twitter tools you use.