Twitter Tweets – sounds just like the cat Sylvester and Tweety. Anyway, it’s taken me ages to convince myself that I really needed to give Twitter a go as I didn’t really see any relevance in me knowing or anyone sharing what they – all across the other side of the globe was doing i.e. walking their ferret or pet mouse or just getting on or off their plane from or to wherever. Just didn’t get it – but the penny is beginning to drop ever so slowly.

So, as I’ve just started using Twitter, I’ve been looking for a way to use Skype instead of GTalk, not that there’s anything wrong with GTalk, but I was surprised that Skype wasn’t an option. And low and behold – PacificIT has already explained how to Twitter using Skype. How neat is that!

How to Twitter from Skype

Here’s a little secret no one seems to know about (or at least before this post!). There is a Skype robot which will post to your Twitter account. Here are the simple instructions:

Add twitter4skype as a contact.

Type the following as a single chat message to twitter4skype:
/account (shift+return)
yourtwitteraccountname (shift+return)
yourtwitteraccountpassword (shift+return)

The system should return: twitter4skype Registration complete!

The next time you write a chat message to twitter4skype, the entry will appear on your account and you’ll receive your friends’ twitters in Skype.

That’s it. Enjoy!