I am addicted to tweets. I can’t get enough of them. These one to two liner posts to twitter might as well be a new chocolate similar to Treats (remember those?). Friends are able to keep up with my life by following my tweets which I can easily send via SMS at any time and place–even while I’m on my throne. I was in London last week without my US mobile and all I could think about was how I wish I can twitter. My constant twittering annoys my girlfriend; Verizon loves me because SMS tweets contributed to a $160 bill last month.
What I really love about twitter is that it extends to other applications by creating a twitter feed for that application. Twitter has an API and I recently saw 2 cool applications of it:
- The blog rock star known as Jeremy Wright uses twitter to update his blog. Each daily post is a digest of that day’s tweets that he sent via his mobile. He demonstrated this application when he twittered about my girlfriend and now we are on his blog.*
- Remember The Milk is allowing users to send updates to their to-do list and interact with the service via commands sent over twitter. These are direct messages to RTM so they do not appear in your own tweeter feed.
* Note: I am not canadian nor am I engaged. We all had a lot to drink that night...
