Ever fed up with the copy and paste work adding a URL link to your Twitter’s tweet? Student coder Gricode has made a simple bookmarklet to make your life easier. He describes it as a “Twitter + tinyURL bookmarklet”. Here are the steps to get it working from your own browse, using the original bullets from Gricode:

• Simply drag the following link onto your bookmarks tab: twitterLink
• Woot, you’re done!
  
• Now, whenever you’re on a site that you would like to post on your twitter, simply click your newly created twitterLink button
• You will be taken to twitter with a tiny url link already “pre-typed” for you

Here is a screen capture showing how the tool “pre-typed” and tinyurl link for you on Twitter:

It is a simple yet handy tool deserve a position on your bookmarks tab. Well done Gricode!

What’s a bookmarklet?

A bookmarklet is an applet, a small computer application, stored as the URL of a bookmark in a web browser or as a hyperlink on a web page. The term is a portmanteau of the terms bookmark and applet. Whether bookmarklet utilities are stored as bookmarks or hyperlinks, they are designed to add one-click functionality to a browser or web page. When clicked, a bookmarklet performs some function, one of a wide variety such as a search query or data extraction. Usually the applet is a JavaScript program. [Source: Wikipedia]