I don’t tweet through my mobile much since here in Sweden it costs to much to send an SMS to a UK number every time you want to update Twitter. Now I just might start =) I’ve found two services that makes it possible for me to update twitter through mail wich makes it very cheap to update from my mobile.
Mail2Twitter
First I found the Mail2Twitter service wich worked well enough. It updated my status and all I had to do was to mail their mailaddress with my username and….password…in the status and my tweet in the body. It worked but it took 5 min to update and I wasn’t really comfortable sending my password everytime I wanted to tweet.
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EmailTwitter
Luckily for me I found a second service as well. EmailTwitter has the same service as Mail2Twitter but with a few additions. First of all you can register your Twitter and mail details on their webpage and then you don’t have to send your password when mailing anymore…big bonus. Also EmailTwitter only took 40 seconds to update my twitter status! As if that wasn’t good enough you can also get your timeline or your private messages
I suggested the other day to a friend that she should use the Twitter system for coordination in a game she is playing. The game in question is The Reincarnation, a web based strategy game where you fight wars between guilds of players.
A guild of players in a web based game encounter some problems when wars drag out over the period of weeks or even months. One of the major problems is how to coordinate the troops. Different guilds use different systems to solve this problem. The moste used are:
- IRC You demand of your players to idle in an IRC channel and thus they are somewhat available when they sit by their computer.
- MSN A messenger is a good way to see if someone is actually online.
- Forum In a forum you discuss strategic or tactical options and also you inspire the troops from here.
- Mail While at work you can’t always take part of forums and such but with a mail you can still relay information and/or give orders.
These systems are only tools and how effective they are depens on how your guild is built. Some ways I’ve seen working are:
- The Brotherhood Everyone is
- (Facebook) Tomas is twitting through my facebook status! http://tinyurl.com/2auel9 #
- (Facebook) Tomas is watching sports. http://tinyurl.com/2bdadt #
- Listening to: Bo Kaspers – Hon E Sa Sot http://tinyurl.com/yuubgm #
- Twitting from TwittyTunes: Da Vinci’s Notebook – Title of the Song (a cappella) http://tinyurl.com/2cduwl #
- (Facebook) Tomas is joining the Gay Marriage Killed the Dinosaurs group. http://tinyurl.com/2nv5hx #
- Listening to: Machinae Supremacy – Flagcarrier http://tinyurl.com/2dgyew #
- Listening to: DeLana Stevens – It’s My Life http://tinyurl.com/2acsxq #
- Feel like playing! #
- Second Life talk #
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Doesn’t anyone follow you on Twitter? It doesn’t help that you have your twitter status both on your Facebook and in your WordPress blog? Well now you can finally show your tweets to the world through your MSN status msg =) This application does something I have been waiting for since I started with Twitter and it does it well. One small drawback is that the install is a tad bit complicated but luckily the readme file explains all very well.
Download [rating:4.5]
FoxyTunes is a very well made plugin that lets you control your media through Firefox. With a small bar at the bottom of your browser you can control Winamp, Mediaplayer or any media player ranging from Mediaplayer Classic to Xbox Mediacenter. You are also connected to the FoxyTunes database wich lets you find out more about the artist you are listening to with just a few clicks. You can find lyrics, videos on youtube and much more. Another nice feature I wasn’t ready for is a button that was added to WordPress that adds the current song you are listening to as a signature in the post you are writing. (example below) With the extra little plugin TwittyTunes you are also just a click away from twitting about what you are listening to or watching.
FoxyTunes TwittyTunes [rating:5]
—————- Now playing: Lars Winnerbäck – Elden via FoxyTunes
TwitBin
Where do you spend most of your online time? For me it’s the webbrowser and thus I’m happy that I now can twit very easily directly from Firefox. I also have a nice sidebar with all my friends’ tweets. This is a plugin I recomend for all that is or want to be twitting on a regular basis.
Homepage [rating:4.5]
BlogRovR
BlogRovR is a multitool. One one hand it is capable of fetching blogposts about whatever page you are visiting, on the other hand it is an easy way to tweet about whatever page you are visiting. It lacks the feature of watching your friends tweets so I won’t be using it as much as TwitBin.
Homepage [rating:3]
I’ve stumbled across a page that describes how to use the service twitterfeed to update your Facebook status. It only updates every 30 minutes (less frequently is available as an option) but atleast there is a way.
Tutorial twitterfeed.com [rating:3.5]
- Twitting from my Facebook! #
- Twitting from my WordPress #
- Writing more and more reviews on blogaloo.com #
- Twitting from MSN #
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