Let’s look at two ways of updating your status at Twitter besides navigating to Twitter.com site itself and posting there. In both these methods, the current web page title and the URL (shortened at TinyURL automatically) will get filled in the posting window.

Method 1: Bookmarklet

Add this Twitter now bookmarklet to Chrome’s bookmarks. Simply drag the link to your bookmarks and click on it whenever you want to micro-blog at Twitter.

Method 2: Keyboard shortcut

Press Ctrl+Alt+T.

For this, first install AutoHotKey, then save this ChromeToTwitter.ahk file and run it.

Interested in the code of this .ahk file? here it is:

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Remember The Milk is a free web service for managing your daily tasks.

Below are the steps to setup Executor so you can easily add a task to RTM via Twitter.

1. Add rtm as your friend in Twitter (either by clicking the ‘add’ link on rtm’s profile page, or sending the message ‘follow rtm’ to Twitter).
2. Visit this link and click on login (in the “Ready to set it up?” box). Complete the process to start interacting with Twitter.
3. Download NirCmd from here. Place nircmd.exe in any location of your choice. In my case, C:\Documents and Settings\I034708\My Documents\My Dropbox\nircmd.exe
4. Download Curl from here. Place curl.exe in the same folder where you kept nircmd.exe.
5. Add a new keyword, ‘rtm’ in Executor. Put the path of nircmd.exe in the Command field. Set Parameter as

   exec hide curl –-basic --user TwitterUN:TwitterPW --data status="d rtm $P$" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
   

   where TwitterUN and TwitterPW are your Twitter username and password.

   If you are behind a corporate proxy, modify the Parameter to add a proxy switch like so:

   exec hide curl –-basic --proxy <proxyname>:<proxyport> --user TwitterUN:TwitterPW --data status="d rtm $P$" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
   

   

That’s it! Now you can add a task to RTM by simply bringing up Executor box via the hotkey (I have set it to Alt+Space), and type ‘rtm’ then put a space and the task name. You can also set tasks to complete and update tasks. The command list can be found on this page.

Executor is my new favorite launcher replacing the old love, FARR. It is extremely fast, intuitive and easy to use. I have been using it for the last two days to launch files, folders, web pages and to browse folders. Thanks to a comment at Lifehacker blog post, below are the steps to send a tweet from within Executor input box. Note that there will be no indication of number of characters left out of 140 and no URL shortening.

1. Download NirCmd from here. Place nircmd.exe in any location of your choice. In my case, C:\Documents and Settings\I034708\My Documents\My Dropbox\nircmd.exe
2. Download Curl from here. Place curl.exe in the same folder where you kept nircmd.exe.
3. Add a new keyword in Executor. Put the path of nircmd.exe in the Command field. Set Parameter as

   exec hide curl --basic --user TwitterUN:TwitterPW --data status="$P$" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
   

   where TwitterUN and TwitterPW are your Twitter username and password.

   If you are behind a corporate proxy, modify the Parameter to add a proxy switch like so:

   exec hide curl --basic --proxy <ProxyName>:<ProxyPort> --user TwitterUN:TwitterPW --data status="$P$" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
   

   

That’s it. Now you can start updating your Twitter by bringing up Executor and typing your message after the keyword.

Here’s the link to corresponding forum thread.