How to Tweet From Mountain Lion

Tweeting dynamos, listen up: you can send micromessages in 10 seconds flat (or less!) from a Mac, and your fellow geeks are about to show you how.

Apple's latest operating system for Mac, Mountain Lion ($20), has built-in Twitter sharing that makes tweeting pics from your desktop and links from Safari faster than ever. And for other important info, like URLs from emails, quotes from ebooks, or highlighted text in non-Safari browsers, we've got a guide to using a quick Twitter for Mac shortcut (free).

Become a social-media maven by streamlining your workflow with these four ways to take advantage of Mountain Lion's superspeedy Twitter integration.