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Snow Leopard Service: New Tweet From Selection [UPDATED]

A little Service I’ve made for Snow Leopard users: this takes the currently selected text and creates a new tweet from it in Tweetie. As a kicker, if the selected text is from a webpage in Safari or Firefox, it’ll also grab the URL of the frontmost window and add that to the tweet as well.

To install, move the file into ‘<Your Home Folder>/Library/Services’. You can also go to your Services Preferences and assign a keyboard shortcut to the script (I’m using Shift-Ctrl-Alt-Cmd-N!) by going to the Application Menu > Services > Services Preferences (Screenshot).

Enjoy!

UPDATE: Version 1.1 will also, when used with text selected in Mail, add the subject line of the frontmost mail message to the tweet (thanks Graham)

Download it now by clicking here. [zip file, 90kB]