If you spent quite amount of time in twitter and are often busy with retweeting or writing twitter posts, sending direct messages etc. you might be tired by clicking the X New Tweets link in your Twitter Timeline. Many of us do not like to moving our mouse to read the new twitter posts from the followed persons when busy with other workarounds. But Twitter Timeline has not have such an auto refresh feature. As a result you are to click each time on a link saying the number of new tweets if you want to read them.
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There is a cool option that makes you productive by enabling the auto refresh method in Twitter page. That means you won’t have to click on the Timeline bar each time. The auto refresh option will refresh Twitter for new posts to appear automatically. You can enable this auto refresh option for the Twitter site by installing the extension in the popular browsers like Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera etc.
Firefox:
Reload Every is a Firefox extension which allows you to auto refresh any webpage after a specified interval. You can enable the option and set the interval by right-clicking on the page and the select Reload Every > The time.
To enable the auto refresh option for your Twitter page just right-click on the page, enable it and specify the time of refreshing the page.
Google Chrome:
Twitter Refresh is the Chrome extension which uses the native new tweets feature of Twitter .com, refresh the Twitter page automatically after an interval. just install that extension by from the above link and everything will be automatically.
There is another script from Greasemonkey, titled as Twitter auto-refresh for Firefox. This script refreshes Twitter homepage automatically in every X seconds. The advanced feature of this script is that it postpones the refreshing event if user is typing something after an update. Install Twitter Auto-refresh in your browser.
Opera:
Opera has the same feature inbuilt by default as the Firefox extension Reload Every.
Let us know if you like to enable the auto refresh feature in your Twitter page.
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I thought I was getting tricked. I use Firefox so this is what I did. Tools>Add-ons (Control+Shift+A)and search Reload Every. I then installed the extension on the list called ReloadEvery 4.0.3. I was looking for a way to stop Twitter from refreshing the page automatically more than I wanted. I’ve now set it to 15 minutes.
I use FF 13.01, it does work on every page except Twitter, no matter what time i set it.
Is there any way to enable the addon when firefox starts up instead of having to right click and enable it manually every time?