Send Updates To Twitter via Email from Mobile Phones - No SMS Bills
The following hack illustrates how to publish updates ("tweets") to Twitter using your regular email account. But in case you are wondering why would anyone need an email based Twitter client when there are so many good options, consider this:
Reason 1. You can send updates to Twitter using SMS text messages but unfortunately, that Twitter short code facility is not available in all countries yet.
Reason 2. You can tweet using Google Talk on your mobile phone but not everyone may be a huge fan of IM software.
Reason 3. Even if you have an unlimited data plan, sending SMS messages from cell phones could be an expensive preposition.
Reason 4: There are situations when you have email access but no Internet - so none of these web based twitter clients would work.
If you now sort of agree that email based tweeting offers some benefits, here’s a step-by-step guide to building your own Twitter client that lets you tweet using regular email.
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.
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Or instead, use twittermail.com :)
Why not simply use Twittermail? It’s even faster than use a blog + twitterfeed.
I use TwitterBerry for my BlackBerry.
The technique outlined by Amit here can also be used if you have WordPress installed.
Why not go to: twittermail.com - It gives you an address to email twitters into.. nice and easy!
How does this method compare with cellity tweeter? I installed the software on my phone without any problems and it works like a charm.
Thanks Gaurav, Leandro and LB for suggesting twitter email.com - will give it a shot.
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.