Lu.ly: Real-time Facebook and Twitter Updates in Your Browser Toolbar

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Lu.ly: Real-time Facebook and Twitter Updates in Your Browser Toolbar

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Quick Pitch: Lu.ly brings users’ Facebook

and Twitter

stream into browsers in real-time.

Genius Idea: Lu.ly is a browser extension for Firefox

, Internet Explorer

and Safari

(Safari currently in alpha) that lets you see your friends Twitter and Facebook status updates in real-time via scrolling text within the Lu.ly toolbar.

Lu.ly also lets you share web pages on Twitter or Facebook (and automatically shortens the URLs), send direct messages, @replies and RTs.

There are a lot of Twitter add-ons for Firefox but Lu.ly is ...

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