How to Integrate Twitter: Experiment

Hey, folks and I guess you know I am going to talk about something that has taken the web by storm last year. it is Twitter; a service that allows people to post very short post(140 words) on anything. It caught on like a fire and has been used by many to send out varied things from what they are doing now, hottest news updates to questions that need some help. it as most other web 2.0 services is based on the community value. The community comprises of you , the people who you follow: These are the peoples post you get as a feed in your home page,and the people who follow you. I would love to talk on the social impact of twitter and how best to get most of it, but I have also joined it recently so need to experiment more to come up with something of value to you.

The first thing I wanted to do was to find a way to integrate Twitter into my other daily activities. Not only this necessary in saving time, but it is the best way to do it. Why? Because Twitter is all about posting what you do as it happens, posting questions you get as they occur, posting news as you learn it. Actually it is just like thinking you are in a room with your friends and instead of speaking out you write it down. So what I need is a few addons and widgets enabling me to use Twitter from desktop, while browsing( and I use few browsers) and from other websites like Facebook.

First if you go to http://twitter.com/downloads you will find a list of widgets that are made by third parties. As I had my opera open I installed the Opera widget. It is a pretty simple widget which allowed for posting. can be only used when opera is running. I posted a test message and it worked fine. The only thing that concerned me was the sending of the passwords insecurely. Also I had to log into it even though I was already logged in from the browser. I just hope it has someway of knowing I was logged in.

Now I have installed the twitbin addon for Firefox 2. It did not work with Firefox 3 beta 2. This one actually updates everything that means the public timeline when ever you post. Note: I just checked out on a hunch and there is a preference button that allows you to see public timeline, friends, or only your own post depending on what you prefer. Yes it allows for updating by pressing the enter key. You can also set the time between refreshing the post feed. I need to use it more to tell how well it performs.

I will check out one more twitter app; it is a one used in your PC it is called twitteroo. it seem to have all features enabled. Well my attemp to download it with safari 3.04 did not work, let me try Firefox, nothing! the download just redirects me to there blog. well I will try it some other time and I urge you to try things out as well. Let me know what sort of plugin, widget or addon worked for you. I promise to write a descriptive comparison on several of these methods and how to easily to integrate work with Twitter.

Hope you enjoyed the post. my attempt was to write a post while experimenting(sort of live blogging),I now know that it can be done if ample time is there to carry out the experiment to the end. Today unfortunately I have to run, as I have a report to write by this evening.