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Twitter is surely fun and addictive. But, how can I more easily post my status to it is the problem which hasn't been solved yet, I think. I tried it with Perl script I wrote and blogged before a few days, but I'm not satisfied with it at all, because I hoped that I could post my status from IRC client which I'm often in front of.

In such a occasion, typester gave me a really simple and effective solution on it. "Use BitlBee", he said. Great! typester++

BitlBee is a gateway which ties IRC to other IM networks, MSN, Yahoo, Jabber, AOL, and ICQ. I connect my IRC client to Jabber network using BitlBee, now can post my status to Twitter via IRC and look at friends' status. Really convenient!

Here's the procedure I did to introduce BitlBee. I'll be glad if it would be helpful for you.

Conditions:

• OS: debian GNU/Linux
• IM: Jabber

Please read it keeping the conditions above in your mind.

1. Registered my Jabber account to Twitter and verify it according to its instructions.

2. Installed BitlBee:

   sudo apt-get install bitlbee

3. Port 6667 (or 6668. Default is 6667) was automatically set for BitlBee through the install process. For more details, see:

   $PAGER /usr/share/doc/bitlbee/README.Debian

4. Then, Bitlbee listens at the port number described above and will be fired up via inetd, so I can connect it with IRC client which I like.

5. Set charset, for example:

   set charset iso-2022-jp

6. Registered my Jabber account to BitlBee server, sending the message below via IRC client:

   account add jabber example@jabber.org password

7. Activated the account:

   account on

8. If success, BitlBee logs in Jabber network and twitter joins a channel owned by BitlBee and me.

9. Started private talk with twitter. To post status, just send a message via IRC client. And friends status are automatically flow down on the channel. Great!

   

You might want to consult also PrincessLeia.com - Bitlbee Quickstart Guide (Online Edition) & Notes.