Twittergram via Phone

3 Jul 2007

Twittergram Phone
Many of you know I am an avid user of Twitter, which answers the question, “What are you doing?”. Dave Winer, the founder of RSS, has been working on a new service called “Twittergram” which allows you to create audio files for Twitter. It didn’t really add anything new to Twitter except an easy mechanism to create and link to a mp3 file. Now Dave has released Twittergram Phone, which allows you to create a Twittergram audio file simply by calling a number from your phone. At first I was bit intimidated thinking the process may be a bit complicated, but as it turns out, it wasn’t!

1. Sign up at the Twittergram page by inputing the phone number you wish to call from and your Twitter information
2. Call 646-716-6000 and leave a short (< 30 sec) message
3. Wait for message to be posted to Twitter!

Very, very easy. Robert Scoble has cleverly utilized this as a personal reminder system. I can see some other uses as well. Again, it’s not about the capability of doing this, its the ease of use. I like stuff like that.

Here’s my first Twittergram Phone.

1 Response to Twittergram via Phone

insurgent

July 3rd, 2007 at 3:28 pm

Hey, IIRC I’m the first one to do a Twittergram via phone. I told him he just needed to get Egorcast to make a simple change and then you would have the option of posting the transcribed text or the audio “Twittergram” to Twitter via the Jott service. It would have been nice if he asked them to add the feature as he has a lot more “pull” than I do! The link to the audio is in the email already and Jott has a nice lightweight audio player. I sent a request but doubt I have enough pull to make it happen.

Personally, the more I see, the more I’m beginning to dislike the idea. Listening to the 200k “uh…err…uh…” is a waste of time. 200k ‘grams contain much more than 140 characters. Haven’t listened to Dave’s last few ‘Grams and have listened to none of Scobles (and yes I like them both!). And when you said “cleverly utilizing it as a personal reminder system”…that’s a big turn off. Why do I want to spend the time listening to Robert “remember to pick up milk” messages.

Sorry Bwana, need to start my own blog instead of hijacking yours!