"Here’s a little secret no one seems to know about (or at least before this post!). There is a Skype robot which will post to your Twitter account.Here are the simple instructions:

1. Add twitter4skype as a contact.
2. Type the following as a single chat message to twitter4skype:
   
   /account (shift+return)
   yourtwitteraccountname (shift+return)
   yourtwitteraccountpassword (shift+return)

    

3. The system should return: twitter4skype Registration complete!
4. The next time you write a chat message to twitter4skype, the entry will appear on your account and you’ll receive your friends’ twitters in Skype.

Tupalo is a social word of mouth recommendations network for fans of local culture, mom and pop boutiques and things that make you go "hmm". Now you can Tweet from within a location page in Tupalo.

We found a fun site called Tupalo that "is a social word of mouth recommendations network for fans of local culture, mom and pop boutiques and things that make you go "hmm"."

It also turns out that they are well up the web 2.0 curve and have integrated to Twitter . You can Tweet from within a location page on their site now..

"Heading out to lunch and want to let your Twitter friends know where to meet you? Now you can simply visit a location page to quickly and easily send a tweet to your friends list. Simply find the location you're heading to on Tupalo, click the "Twitter It" button, enter your username and password and off you go. We'll pre-fill a simple message, which you can easily edit and send. All of your friends on Twitter will receive a nice little tweet from you with the name and URL of the location you're heading to. Look below to see a screenshot of our hot little Twitter form, simple no?"

There has been some concern over the security of twittering under a private profile of late. Several rumours and blog posts have come up lately saying that the privacy of "only show my friends" profiles, has been violated. This article in the Guardian is one such article.

The team at Twitter Inc has been quick to point out that it is up to the developer to protect the users privacy.  It is not a flaw in the Twitter API but a flaw in the 3rd Party applications.   Here is the message from co-founder Biz Stone:

"So what the heck are they talking about? Some Twitter users willingly provided their usernames and passwords to a mash-up project called Twittervision (a service unaffiliated with Twitter except that it accesses our API). They did this so they could be part of the fun and access more Twittervision features. However, Twittervision was not checking to see if any of these folks had marked their updates as "protected." Starting today David Troy, the creator of Twittervision, tells us he'll make sure to check for this.

As a reminder, please note that mash-ups and other experimental projects built using the Twitter API are totally awesome and fun but developed by folks outside of Twitter. So, we don't necessarily test them all out. If privacy is a concern, we remind you to refrain from supplying your Twitter username and password to other people, sites, or services. For more information about privacy, please have a look at our Privacy Policy."

So there you have the official story.. 

See link for details on how to twitter from Facebook.

With all the rage about the new Facebook platform , we wondered if it would help twitterers. Well we are in luck. The applications and widgets that are available inside Facebook include a twitter widget / application. To Twitter in Facebook:

1. Go to this link

2. Find and add the Twitter application

3. Start twittering in facebook