Using Twitter from the mobile phone, through its official app is great. It is a device that you always have at hand, where it is very comfortable to move around on its touch screen and to publish tweets with photos is much more agile. But if you want to use your master web browser, then watch out: keyboard shortcuts that will change the way you use Twitter from your computer.
Keyboard shortcuts for Twitter
Typically, the vast majority of Twitter users access the service through the mobile application, available for both iOS and Android. Even if they are in front of their computer, many find it more convenient to do it with the smartphone and not through the application or native clients that exist for both Windows and macOS. Not counting the direct access from the web browser.
This is completely valid, but when you start to know and take advantage of the different keyboard shortcuts that exist to use Twitter from the browser, things change. Because you can scroll through the different sections, create tweets, reply, mark as I like and much more based on key combinations. And yes, it is true that memorizing them all from the beginning is not easy, but as you assimilate them there is no going back.
Therefore, start by writing down the ones that are most practical for you and gradually introduce new shortcuts. As these increase in numbers you will see that using Twitter from the browser can be much better than from the mobile phone.
Basic keyboard shortcuts
The first shortcuts you should learn are the ones that allow you to use basic actions. Those ranging from posting a new tweet to replying to one from another user. So, let’s start with these. To use them you just have to be in the active browser window with the url of Twitter.com:
- N creates a new tweet
- R responds to an open tweet
- He marks it with a like
- M send direct message
- U mute user account
- X locks user account
- INTRO opens the tweet you have selected in the timeline
- Or open the photo of the tweet you have selected
- / open the search engine
- Ctrl + Enter or Cmd + Enter send tweet that you have written
Navigation shortcuts
As you can see, the first ten are the basic ones, those with which you can interact with tweets and perform common actions such as creating a new tweet or replying. But there is more, especially these first four that you will see will allow you to update the web to see new tweets from other users or scroll through them without having to resort to using the mouse or trackpad.
- J skip to the next tweet
- K go to the previous tweet
- SPACE allows you to scroll down. If you press Shift + SPACE you will scroll up.
- Navigation arrows also allow you to move up or down the timeline
- . if you press the period key you will load new tweets (update timeline)
To finish curling the curl, these shortcuts allow you to go to the different sections within Twitter and ranging from the Moments tab to the configuration and privacy settings. Some may be the ones that you will use the least in your day to day, but it is interesting to know them equally.
- G + H takes you to the main timeline
- G + O opens the Moments section
- G + N opens your Twitter notifications
- G + R opens the mentions
- G + P open your profile within the social network
- G + L opens the Like section
- G + I opens the Lists section
- G + M open your direct message tray
- G + S opens configuration and privacy settings
- G + U opens the Twitter search engine
What do you think? Yes, you probably think that you are not going to be able to memorize so many combinations, but believe us it is not complicated at all. Also, if at any time you have doubts about which combination did a certain action, this is the only shortcut that you will have to memorize capital letters +? . When you use this combination a floating window will appear with all of them so you can refresh your memory.
