Safari Extension: AvianSafari Extension Brings Twitter Front and Center

For me, who has a constant rush of twitter updates (much more than 4 per 5 minute interval), extensions like this can be hit or miss. I also tend to have several windows open at one time, in which case I see the same tweets at the top of each window. This is an annoyance that prevents my enjoyment of many great Safari extensions (like the Times Breaking News extension)

But if you have a more reasonable number and behavior of people you're following, and don't want to miss a thing, AvianSafari could be just what the Doctor ordered. The interface is nice and well integrated into such a small space, with 4 or 5 tweets appearing in a reasonably sized window and controls over to the right. (It's hard to do it justice in the width of a blog post) Hovering and clicking bring a menagerie of nice animated effects while switching between tweets and mentions, or expanding to view an entire tweet.

Or, I can see this as a way to keep close tabs on your twitter mentions which, for most, come at a much slower clip.

AvianSafari has several of the options that any good Twitter client should, including update interval settings (to not use up all your API calls, choice of link shortener, as well as an option to use your own link shortener credentials.