Twitterfone launched in May to let Twitter users post new messages by calling in to a phone number and speaking out what they want to say. The service then converts the message to text and posts it to your Twitter account along with a link to the audio file. Here’s a test message I created at the launch. The service is a great way to leave a quick Twitter message when you’re away from your computer and only have access to a phone – the service offers local number in 19 countries and is expanding regularly. The company says 20,000 people have signed up for the service since launch.
Today Twitterfone will start converting your Twitter messages to audio, too, giving users a full audio interface to the service. As of today, when you call Twitterfone the service offers to let you record a new message, listen to messages from your friends, and reply to messages publicly or privately. Users can listen to the first ten messages.
For now, only English is supported, but Japanese is next up. The service is free and will remain so for the foreseeable future.
If you are a Twitterer, you’re gonna love this. Below is a quick demo video I did via Qik that shows the functionality.
it’s for Twitterholics…
mike, i think you’re loosing it. seriously. how is the result different from using uterz and have your followers listen to it in your blog or friendfeed? oh, yeah, wait… it converts audio to text. wow. what an innovation. it’s pathetic. i think this is it, this is the day the internet started to go backwards.
I am not sure why there are so many haters here.. . This is great for when I am in the car and want to tweet… Its not for every tweet just specialized ones.
Thanks for recording the demo. The messages are a bit hard to understand. Is it that an issue when not recorded on qik?
Hey – and if you hang on the line when you finish your tweet, the nice laydee might compliment you
Seriously, what’s the point? I don’t get it.
It’s like jott for twitter, except jott converts your voice to text, and i believe it will forward the text to twitter Great Service and it’s free.
Jott has been doing this for quite a while now…
http://jott.com....html?ref=links
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Cheers for the post Mike
Really appreciate it
@tom shields Jott doesn’t allow you to listen to your twitter stream and it certainly doesn’t allow you to break into that stream and do directs or @
thanks again
I’d love to try it but I need an Invite code.
Yes, I too would appreciate an invite code if available.
Thanks
There are a few companies that do this, like Jott.
Ten invites, help yourself, any more needed, dm me @patphelan on twitter
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i hope the turkish users will use it :S
140 characters doesn’t last long when you’re speaking.
Agreed.
Now what is their business model?
maybe play ads while you wait at some point of the process
So cool to see TwitterFone here again. Working with Pat, David, Sean and Ivan on this venture is extremely gratifying.
@zoe you are right 140 character is a limitation but TwitterFone allows you to post longer tweets by just following the link on Twitter.
nice one twitterphone team. I like it. Been experimenting with tweets from twitterphone but listening to them is great. Especially as i am on holiday where 3g / edge coverage is dodgy.
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I can’t think of a more useless service. Can we take odds on how long this “company” will continue to exist ? In the meantime I am going to start a company that lets me convert text into morse code and paste into MySpace, I am calling MyWaste.
If you’ve used Asterisk much you’ll probably recognize the IVR voice as none other than Allison Smith.
http://www.theivrvoice.com/
That was money very very well spent.
cool twitterphone application, it make communication more interractive and instantly. but how many twitterphone user will use it?
this still doesnt work in India, right???
Doesn’t work in Germany either…
Why use qik its so slow use Next2Friends
Just saw this as we are about to launch a similar service, but for us, it is an add-on to our service that brings audio programming to the phone.
I think things like this are better in context of something you are already doing on the phone vs a specialized tool that just does one thing.
You can automatically post your audio and video to Twitter form your phone or from the web. Take a look at PubClip.com (http://www.pubclip.com)