In our last blog post, we introduced you to MonkeyFly, a tiny, light weight, powerful addon for Firefox and Chrome developed by http://egoing.net. Here is an exclusive review of its features.
As powerful as Desktop Apps:
Incorporating all the features of a Desktop App, it is a very useful JavaScript and jQuery based addon. As compared to TweetDeck, Seesmic, HootSuite, DestroyTwitter and other apps it has all of their basic twitter features except for the ability to manage multiple accounts simultaneously.
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Accommodating Twitter Functionalities to a Single Page:
It aggregates your entire twitter features and functionalities to a single page. The use of JavaScript and jQuery eliminates the need of frequent reloading of the page. Besides providing all your tweets and direct messages in an organized manner, it also lets you go through the tweets to which you have replied and has taken a form of “conversation”. Such tweets can be viewed all together; it shows up the tweets of all those users who were/are part of it. You can even have a look at your friend’s conversations.
Most Useful Basic Features:
The most useful basic features are: an auto URL shortener, you simply need to paste your long URL and click the “URL Shortener” button. There is no need to select the URL. Another one is, photo uploading. The “Photo” button lets you upload your pictures directly on TwitPic using your twitter id and after the upload is complete it automatically inserts the link in your tweet box.
Username Suggestion:
A Username suggestion provides a handy way to make “mentions”, eliminating the need of remembering them.
Re-view Your Old Re-Tweets / Replies and Mentions:
You can have a direct look at your “mentions” (the tweets by others/you in which your @username has been mentioned) along with the tweets you have re-tweeted. And also, a very useful feature which lets you knows which of your tweets have been re-tweeted by others.
Easy Profile Navigation:
Even to view a profile, you need not change the page. It opens up in a pop-up box, keeping a track of the recently viewed profiles. So, you can always scroll back to them without making a search.
Speed Efficiency:
Since, it uses scripting languages to provide enhanced features; the first run of your page is bit slower as compared to the loading of the basic twitter page. A slow down of few seconds could be ignored keeping in mind the functionalities it provides and the time it saves then.
Conclusion:
Undoubtedly, MonkeyFly is a very handy tool to reform your twitter pages. Providing unbeatable features by turning your twitter page to a sleek, easy to handle and quickly navigable dashboard MonkeyFly is all that you need to manage your tweets.
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