Ubiquity is an amazing and extremely useful command line tool/UI for Firefox, currently in alpha. Since it didn't come packaged with a command to search Twitter and I couldn't find one elsewhere, I tweaked a simple command together that does the job... "twittersearch". You can copy the code below and add it to Ubiquity's command editor yourself (and have it instantly usable) or you can subscribe directly to the command on my Ubiquity page (subscribing will require FF restart). If you haven't tried Ubiquity for Firefox, check it out at Mozilla Labs. No need for me to blog about it; enough is already being said here, there and everywhere.
As always, your mileage may vary, use at your own risk, the usual suspects. Enjoy!
makeSearchCommand({
name: "twittersearch",
url: "http://search.twitter.com/search?q={QUERY}",
icon: "http://assets3.twitter.com/images/favicon.ico",
description: "Searches <a href=\"http://search.twitter.com\">Twitter</a> for tweets matching your words.",
preview: function(pBlock, directObj) {
if (directObj.text)
pBlock.innerHtml = "Searches Twitter for " + directObj.text;
else
pBlock.innerHTML = "Searches Twitter for tweets matching yourwords.";
}
});
name: "twittersearch",
url: "http://search.twitter.com/search?q={QUERY}",
icon: "http://assets3.twitter.com/images/favicon.ico",
description: "Searches <a href=\"http://search.twitter.com\">Twitter</a> for tweets matching your words.",
preview: function(pBlock, directObj) {
if (directObj.text)
pBlock.innerHtml = "Searches Twitter for " + directObj.text;
else
pBlock.innerHTML = "Searches Twitter for tweets matching yourwords.";
}
});
