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I subscribe to a lot of RSS feeds, and use a great application called Reeder to read my subscriptions. A great feature of Reeder is that I can share articles on Twitter quickly, with only a few clicks.

When I find a great article or photo using my web browser, easily sharing it on Twitter is much harder. I have to open my Twitter application (or go to the Twitter web app), copy & paste my text (or create my own), copy & paste the URL, and shorten the URL. All before the tweet is actually posted.

I want to share content on Twitter through a web browser as easily as I can with my RSS reader. Therefore, I created a bookmarklet that does exactly that. With the lloquy.com bookmarklet, you can tweet anything to your followers right from the web page you are currently visiting. 

Here’s some benefits.

• No need for a separate application. The text box opens right within your browser. You don’t even leave the web page you are currently visiting.
• Make Sharing Incredibly Easy. Highlight some text on the web page before clicking the bookmarklet and we’ll auto-populate the tweet with that text. If no text is selected, we utilize the page title. Note you can remove all this and just be creative. We also automatically add a shortened URL to the page your currently visiting.
• No New Credentials. Users logon through Twitter with their credentials on Twitter’s website. We never see or store your password.

This bookmarklet is exactly what I needed, and I thought I would share it with people who needed something similar. To get it, go to lloquy.com and logon. Below is a short video on installing and using the bookmarklet, in case you are interested (Apologies there is no voiceover).