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Easy ways to access twitter

Social networking and blogging has been around for a long all over the web.The internet is all flooded by social networking sites(MySpace,Facebook,Orkut just to name a few) and blooging platforms(blogger,wordpress etc).But the concept of Microblgging is reletively new and involves a touch of social networking.The best example of microblogging is “Twitter” .It has been a superhit ever since it was launched.And now the situation is such that is hard to find a site having more applications for acessing the site than twitter!

Here is my compilation of some of the easiest methods to tweet
1 Using the web: TWITTER
I must be foolish to add this to the list.But This still remains the most used method.Just log on to twitter.com and tweet.As simple as that.Believe me the next ones are also simple as this but are more easily acessable than this one.

2 Usning a google desktop: Google Desktop

If you are using google desktop then the using a plugin to tweet is the easiest way to tweet.Good way if you are using windows.twitter_gadget_shot3 Using a windows PC: Twhirl

The next one is available for both windows and mac and gives many more options like changing themes and connecting to multiple services like laconi.ca, Friendfeed and seesmic

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4 Uing an iphone: Pockettweets

This little application can be used to tweet from your iPhone and Ipod touch and is probably the best one for iPhone.

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5 GPRS Phone Widsets

To Stay connected to twitter using your phone.

widsets_screenshot 6 Using an IM disgby and ping.fm

These two services allow the user to tweet using the instant messenger.Just adds a bot on the friends list and sending a message to the bot us all it takes to tweet.They are not only for twitter but can also be used to manage various other accounts.Digsby also suppots using multiple IM accounts like pidgin.

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7 using a Linux Desktop: Qttwitter

This is an easy to use twitter client made by one of my friends Mr.Shashank Singh.It is all made on Qt and is best used on a system running opensuse10.x and 11.

qttwitter

8 Using firefox plugin

Surf internet and tweet whenever you like. Get FoxyTunes and TwitBin for your Firefox. FoxyTunes plugin not only allow you tweet your own words. But also tweet what you are browsing, watching, reading, etc.

1.9 using opera: opera widget

If you are a big opera fan.then using twitter is just istalling an sript away !

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10 Using a blog plugin in wordpress

With Twitter Tools wordpress plugin, you can tweet from front page or admin page. It is quite similar to Web tweet, but from your own blog.

11 Using amarok

This the strangest method of using twitter.A script that catches the name of the song you are listening and send it to twitter.This is a great way to irritate the ones following you!With this you are sure to loose some followers!

amarkotwitter

12 Using email twittermail

Well again a strange way to tweet.this servise just needs to be configured for the username and password.I would recomment not to use it since a lot better options are available.

13 Sending SMS

Finally if you are a real twitter fan you can spend a little money by sending SMS to twitter.The prices are decided by your service provider.Check it out on the sidebar on your twitter profile

And after using all this, you are still not having a twitter account then rush and make one on twitter.com

Use twitter wih IM

Around The web world in 10 secs This is the way I use Twitter service and my message comes back to me after travelling through the internet in less than 10 secs.
I use the services of twitter along with jabber,ping.fm and google.
I type the message in the Pidgin IM to a buddy named twitter who is actually a bot at the ping.fm server.This message is sent to the jabber server which forwards it to the google server(talk.google).From google it is forwarded to ping.fm which is a service to connect the social networks.Ping.fm transfers the message to twitter.Twitter updates the RSS and this RSS is forwarded to my opera browser.From there it is caught by the KDE RSS reader on my desktop finally flashing the original message for me.All this is less than 10 sec\s and all for free!!!!