Twitter is a free service for telling your friends (or the whole world) what you're doing right now (and vice-versa). This product is from the same group that developed Blogger and Odeo.
And this service enjoys a huge fan following - Evan Williams, Anil Dash, Robert Scoble, Matthew Mullenweg, Leo Laporte, Niall Kennedy.. you name a person and chances are that he's already a Twitter addict.
Earlier, I was under the impression that to use twitter, one needs to send an SMS text message from a mobile phone number to get it published on the twitter website.
I was so wrong - you can use twitter directly with Gtalk without paying those international SMS sending charges.
Here's how - just add twitter@twitter.com as your contact in GTalk (Google Talk) and verify your account (settings -> Phone & IM)
Now whenever you IM this new friend called Twitter, the message will automatically publish on your twitter account. And this twitter friend is always online to accept your pings. How cool is that.
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Reader Comments
Hi Amit,
In my opinion Twitter is so successful (and not just with guys) because it's dead easy to use and because it has so many input and notification channels:
Input from the web, from IM, from SMS
Output on the web, to IM, to SMS, to RSS
If you like you can even Twitter a private messages to a single person from your list of friends.
Some links that might be useful:
Twitter command overview: http://twitter.com/help/lingo
Excellent tips and ideas on John Tropea's Library clips: here (John has multiple posts on Twitter)
Twitter Fan Wiki: http://twitter.pbwiki.com/
And in case you want to track breadcrumbs:
http://twitter.com/Chopianissima
Written on 30/1/07 12:15 AM
Thanks for sharing M.
The Twitter lingo looks interesting.
Written on 30/1/07 12:16 AM
Hello Amit,
www.looktop.blogspot.com
I am a blogger can u guide me that how can i make some portion of my post to appear on main page and the whole on its on own page?
Did u got my point.
For eg- your previous stories links at the end of each post is only displayed on the post page only and not on the main page? How u have done this miracle. Tell me
Written on 30/1/07 2:24 AM
Hi Amit,
Thanks for sharing this :-) Just signed up and yes, it gives these instructions after signup - add Twitter to your Gtalk, send verification code by IM...
Thanks again.
Cheers!
Alpesh Nakar
http://alpesh.nakars.com/blog
Written on 30/1/07 5:09 AM
Amit, it seems Google Search box code on your site is broken. It returns nothing for any search term.
Why have you removed the WordPress style comment box on your post page. I just loved it. (I have heard that it is not secure).
Have you shifted to 'New Blogger'. If not why ?
Is it possible to implement the WordPress style comment box in 'New Blogger'
Written on 31/1/07 6:33 AM
Unfortunately Twittering through Gtalk is so slow! It has not worked yet for me. I tried it several times and got nothing sent yet! The contact keeps on going offline when I send messages.. and responds in about 4 minutes to a simple "help" command.. They will need to invest money in servers... or maybe yahoo will buy this service like they did with MyBlogLog.
Written on 14/3/07 4:04 PM