JISHOU, HUNAN — Since I am all into this Web 2.0 shtick, a few months ago I signed up for a Twitter account. Then I did nothing with it. Until today.
Twitter is great if you have mobile Web access. I was using a prepaid T-mobile account in the USA, and we prepaid peons get no Web joy from T-mobile. My situation is not much better here in China: no Web access, but for some odd reason I can send MMS emails out, but not receive emails.
Well, it seemed to me that if Twitter is such hot stuff, it would allow you tweet using email. As if. Twitter.com has no such service in place, though it seems painfully easy to implement.
A quick Google search turned up a third-party solution: twittermail.com. Twittermail gives you a secret email address. When you send a message to that addy, it automatically becomes a tweet. I tried it, and it works!
Whether I actually use the service to tweet now remains to be seen, but at least I know I can do it when I want to, from anywhere in China. (China Mobile service is pretty universal here.)
Then I got to thinking. Is there a plugin for WordPress that would send out a tweet when I post to the blog? Several, as it turns out.
I am trying one out with this post, WP-to-Twitter. If it works as advertised, whenever I post to the blog, that news becomes a tweet, with a shortened link for people to click.
I already have WP feeds on MySpace and Facebook, so it would be cool if the same is true for Twitter. Nothing like maximizing my web presence.
[Added after posting: Damn! It actually works!]
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