You would have seen it in papers. Twitter, twitting, or tweeting. First it was a thing of the youths, now celebrities are doing it, and no doubt some politicians too.
And, you got so excited, and wanting to be in the trend, you've decided to get yourself a Twitter account. Excellent. All signed up and ready to go? What? You've got a question?
Oh. How to tweet from the phone ah?
That's an excellent question, actually. You see ah, got a lot of applications you can use to help you tweet while on the move, and yours truly is here to help.
Starhub Mobitweet!
If you are using Starhub, and are either on Student/NSF plan, with unlimited sms, or you simply have a lot of free sms-s to spare, Starhub allows you to tweet for free!
Registration is easy and fast. Simply sign in with your Twitter account, select a maximum of ten friends to receive updates, and you're done.
In a nutshell:
What you can do: Tweet (duh!), receive tweets (only from 10 friends of your choice), and reply tweets (only to those 10 friends.)
Cost: Free.
Ratings: 3/5. Why only 10 friends?!
gladlyCast
If you want to only update Twitter via your phone, this is for you. An exclusive site only for Singapore, Malaysia and Philippine users. Each country has its own number for users to Tweet, so no worries about skyrocketing costs of international messages.
It accepts tweets in Chinese, Japanese and Hebrew too. Though why you might wanna tweet in Japanese, when it doesn't work in Japan, or tweet in Hebrew is kindof questionable. Tamil might be nice actually, since it's a national language in Singapore.
You do not need to register for an account at gladlyCast. All you need is to sign in with your Twitter account. The website will flash a certain phrase on your screen, and you have to sms that in to the local number shown, and within seconds, you are free to tweet.
In a nutshell:
What you can do: Tweet (duh!). And that's about it.
Cost: The equivalent of a local sms. (Or free, if you have unlimited)
Ratings: 2/5. (no other function except to tweet?!)
sgBEAT
If you want to update Twitter, Facebook, Plurk! and support local sounding names or names that has an SG in it.
By invitation, or by registering but accounts are limited. As of time of writing, they have yet to get back to me about an account.
In a nutshell:
What you can do: Tweet (duh!), and update facebook.
Cost: Free
Ratings: 3/5. (They offer two local numbers for you to sms to, so no worries about laggy updates)
If you're an Iphone / Ipod Touch user, you can try
Echofon
I don't use any so I really can't comment.
