Would you like to talk to your Twitter friends or set up a spontaneous conference call? Normally you’d have to agree to hook up over Skype or something else. But soon you could be making calls via Twitter.
Phweet is a new service which does just this (thanks to Pat Phelan of MaxRoam and Twitterfone for the tip-off). After signing in with your Twitter name and password you select how the call will be carried, either via browser, SIP ID or number/Mobile Phone. You then plug in your friend’s Twitter name and generate a “Phweet” which is a unique shortURL for sharing the call with one or more people.
How confusing. more detail?
that name is a disaster in the making.
Phweet= feet + sweet?
Name sounds like a fart you unsuccessfully try to keep from escaping.
LOL!
Can I use Twitter itself to initiate a call … like @phweet call @joe
Combine this with a McDonald’s Scratchers game and you might have something.
Very interesting.
Seems like not a day goes by without some entrepreneurs / techies creating new tools that build additional functionality on Twitter.
Where do you think this will be in 18 months [Bigger/Smaller/Same size]?
Seems like an awful lot of trouble to go through just to talk to someone.
I have stop reading at: “After signing in with your Twitter name and password”…
Great, another 3rd party asking users to give them the credentials… when they will going to learn?
Well, I don’t think twitter needs more third-applications (or to make that a priority), those are the ones causing so many problems, and the ones that make it go down so frequently. They piggyback the system but don’t offer any revenue-sharing to help keep the platform working.
a Copy of skype? in a way… http://blabtech.blogspot.com
Exactly how is this “additional functionality” on twitter? I still need to select how the call is carried? Isn’t that the same thing as opening skype, picking up the phone or walking over to their cube?
Phweet: Thrive or Fail[VOTE]? http://snurl.com/381v8 [www_thriveorfail_com]
So, as I see it, it’s a mashup of Twitter and Tringme. right?
Um, I am able to call people without Twitter.. I guess this shows that Twitter is just a gimick.
Por Que? I have to play with it to see what its all about
Chris Waddle. Scorchio.