Reply to your own Tweets

If you’re a Twitter user you’ll know that every Tweet you read has a reply link on hover. (Like this tweet from @smashingmag)

But what if you wanted to reply to your own tweet, for whatever reason? For example, you wanted to add to a tweet you’d previously posted. Hovering over the tweet does not give you this option, either in your feed or in your profile.

So I made my own bookmarklet to do the job. Saving the link at the bottom of the page as a bookmark (by dragging it onto your Bookmarks Toolbar) means that you can easily reply to your own tweets, following these simple instructions:

1. Find the tweet you want to reply to and click the relative posting date (e.g. about 2 hours ago):

2. You’ll be navigated to the individual page for that tweet. Simply click the “Reply to Own Tweet” bookmark in your Bookmarks Toolbar and you’ll be redirected to the twitter homepage, with the “What’s happening?” field ready to go.

3. Write what you need to and click “Tweet” and you’re done!

(Now if you click “in reply to mathaywarduk” you’ll see the tweet that you’ve replied too.)

Here’s the link