The following two hacks illustrate how can you publish updates ( or tweets) to Twitter using email but first, if you are wondering why would anyone need an email based Twitter client when there are so many good desktop Twitter clients, read this.
Why Update Twitter through Email
#1. You can send updates to Twitter using SMS text messages but unfortunately, that Twitter short code facility is either not available in all countries or is extremely expensive.
2. You can update your Twitter status using Google Talk on your mobile phone but not everyone may be carrying a smart phone.
3: There are situations when you have email access but no Internet -- so none of the mobile apps for twitter would work.
Now that you know the benefits of using Twitter via email, here’s a video tutorial that shows how you can post status updates to Twitter through email.
It’s a simple process. Just link your Posterous account with Twitter and then send an email message from your mobile phone to twitter@posterous.com -- anything in subject line of that email message will turn in your Twitter status as in this screenshot.
Here’s another solution to the same problem -- it uses Blogger instead of Posterous.
Step 1: Go to blogger.com and create a dummy blog (say, mytwitter.blogspot.com)
Step 2: From the Blogger dashboard, go to Settings -> Email and set up your own private mail-to-blogger address -- something like abc.twitter@blogger.com -- save this email address to your mobile phone address book.
Step 3: Go to twitterfeed.com, login with your OpenID and associate the feed mytwitter.blogspot.com/rss.xml to your twitterfeed account.
That’s it. When you have something to share with the Twitter universe, send that as an email message to the address created in Step 2. Your tweet may take few minutes to show up on the Twitter homepage but it will be there definitely.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/email/send-twitter-updates-email-mobile-phone-without-sms/2955/
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Reader Comments
Or instead, use twittermail.com :)
Written by Gaurav Gupta on 04.14.08
Why not simply use Twittermail? It’s even faster than use a blog + twitterfeed.
Written by Leandro on 04.14.08
I use TwitterBerry for my BlackBerry.
The technique outlined by Amit here can also be used if you have WordPress installed.
Written by Vaibhav on 04.14.08
Why not go to: twittermail.com – It gives you an address to email twitters into.. nice and easy!
Written by Lady Banana on 04.14.08
How does this method compare with link tweeter? I installed the software on my phone without any problems and it works like a charm.
Written by tanya25m on 04.14.08
Thanks Gaurav, Leandro and LB for suggesting twitter email.com – will give it a shot.
Written by Amit Agarwal on 04.15.08
Hi,
Your method of this article is better than twittermail.
Because Blogger has no limitation of 140 characters and twitterfeed is automatically add TinyURL to twitter post.
This superiority is especially work if you post photo or movie from mobile phone.
Thanks for your post.
Written by Inetgate on 04.20.08
Great hack!
Better that TweetMail because TwitterFeed allows a prefix to be added before forwarding the message to Twitter.
I prefix my Tweets with hashtags in TwitterFeed. This way I can send the same message to a distribution list that contains: email addresses, SMS email addresses, blog email addresses, and Twitter email address. Only the Twitter message get the hashtags added. Really cool!
Written by Brad Codd (InfoQuick) on 04.20.09