Twitter for Mac -- right-click tweet from anywhere in OS X

Twitter for Mac, aka Tweetie 2, has seen quite a lot of praise since its birth unto the Mac App Store. It takes a slick, minimalist approach to the Twitter client paradigm, something other big players like Tweetdeck eschew for greater on-screen functionality. So it comes as no real surprise that it took a couple of weeks, for perhaps one of the most useful features of Twitter for Mac, to actually surface -- Tweet from anywhere.

Twitter for Mac uses the contextual menu services that are built into OS X. Simply highlight a section of text -- a word, phrase, or even a URL -- and right-click. Select 'Tweet' and the selection will appear in a new Tweet ready to fire off to your adoring followers. Unfortunately highlighting a hyperlink won't send the hyperlink URL to a new tweet, just the text. Nor does it work with image selections, but that's no real surprise.

Brilliantly simple, minimalist, and most importantly useful. Give it a try if you're running Twitter for Mac and if you're having problems, head on over to MacStories for some troubleshooting advice.

Tags: apps, desktops, Mac, OS X, OsX, social networking, SocialNetworking, twitter