Twitter

[jack]

I have a twitter account (CartesianDaemon), but I've not used it. I've friended several friends' feeds. How should I read my twitter feed: from the twitter home page? Does it send tweets to email? Does it still text them to you? Or through a third-party app?

Comments

[andrewducker]

I recommend Tweetdeck.

[emperorzombie]

I use Echofon because I like them in a browser and not a standalone thingy. Only problem is it doesn't sync between browsers.

[palfrey]

I've been using Twitux, but that's only for Linux (that, and the upstream version is a bit dead, so I've been making my own improvements). I prefer having a third party app with notifications, but it's a matter of personal taste.

[liv]

IMO, Twitter is basically pointless unless you get messages in some semblance of real time; if I want to go a web page and read what people are thinking about, I have LJ, DW and even Facebook for that, I don't need Twitter which restricts them to 140 characters and encourages banality.

You can get Twitter to send you selected texts (you don't have to commit to SMS updates from absolutely everybody you know, you can pick a subset). This works with Orange phones, using the shortcode 86444, and if you look on the Twitter website it has pretty good instructions on how to set it up. And it doesn't cost money, which is a big advantage!

If you want a Twitter app for the phone, you'll have to look into what runs on your OS, and I can't help there because I only know my little shiny Blackberry. Twitter feeds exist as RSS, and therefore you can do anything with them that you can do with RSS. I know there are RSS to email apps out there, and I expect there are some that are specifically written for Twitter, even.