This is a bookmarklet that finds a canonical short url from the current webpage (or creates a new bit.ly url if none exists) and then sends that to Twitter as the basis of a new tweet.

The bookmarklet first tries to find any one of the following: rev='canonical', rel='shortlink', rel='shorturl', rel='alternate short', or rel='alternate shorter'. If the page doesn't have one of the above, it then uses the bit.ly api to create a short url for you.

The idea for this came from Lachlan Hardy's Tweet-Canonical.

The bulk of the code came from Joel Watts's gist. I simply swapped the prompt for the Twitter redirect.

To install the bookmarklet, first you'll need to add your BITLY_USERNAME and BITLY_API_KEY. You can get the latter from your bit.ly Account

Then you'll need to paste the JS into a bookmarklet builder such as this.

Copyright (c) 2010 Phil Oye under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.