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If I'm typing a tweet in Mountain Lion's new Notification Center panel, is there a way to send the tweet without moving my hands to the trackpad to click the "send" button? I've tried return, enter, ⌘return, and other key combinations, but nothing obvious sends the message.

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In the process of trying to find an answer to this question I accidentally found a way to break the "Click to Tweet" button. I typed something in the tweet composer and then hit Esc, then the OS seemed to hang for a minute before closing Notification Center. Now I can click on the "Click to Tweet" button and it registers the click but the composer doesn't open. So, caution: don't try that combo if you care about tweeting. – Tortilla Jul 27 '12 at 7:48
I've managed to do that several times tonight. In Terminal, you can reset Notification Center with a killall NotificationCenter; open /System/Library/CoreServices/Notification\ Center.app/ – Daniel Lawson♦ Jul 27 '12 at 7:54

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I didn't intend for this to become a self-answered question, but I think I found the answer:

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The send mail shortcut works to send a Tweet also. Yay for discoverability.

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The mean thing is that even if you change this combination for Mail.app I haven't found a way to change it for the tweet sheet. (Opened a question.) – GhostLyrics Aug 3 '12 at 13:58
Good observation, @GhostLyrics – Daniel Lawson♦ Aug 3 '12 at 14:18
Is there a shortcut for the "Click to Tweet" button itself? – Roberto Aloi Aug 9 '12 at 21:50
@RobertoAloi See here — not a single key, but it can be scripted (and thus assigned a keyboard shortcut) – Daniel Lawson♦ Aug 9 '12 at 22:14
You can do the whole process, from opening Notification Centre to sending the tweet, without taking your hands off the keyboard: apple.stackexchange.com/a/86520/26500 – DrGuyBH Mar 23 at 19:22

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