BIS Lite and Twitter?

For those who lives outside Indonesia or may be Asia, the BIS (Blackberry Internet Service) Lite might seems unfamiliar. It is actually a downgrade BIS so that the cost could be reduced. There are several types of BIS Lite :

• BIS Lite Email & Chat
• BIS Lite Social Networking & Chat

What the BIS Lite covered are all activities which engage using native BlackBerry application such as Yahoo Messenger for Blackberry, Google Talk for BlackBerry, BlackBerry Messenger, Windows Live Messenger for Blackberry, Facebook for BlackBerry, and MySpace for BlackBerry.

Okay, at first I also got misguided by the "Social Networking" terms as for their term Twitter is not one of them because it doesn't include in or have the BlackBerry native application. But then I googled some clue and found these two methods of updating Twitter from your BIS Lite.

First, you need a Gtalk account which I believe most of the BlackBerry users will already have. Then we need to setup a 'TwitterSpy'. Here is a step-by-step howtos :

1. Add twitterspy@jabber.org as your contact in Gtalk
2. Wait for a moment until you got approved. It should be quick
3. After that you could see a log on to your twitter account by typing this command 'twlogin' and logout using 'twlogout' (no quotes)
4. If you logged on, you could post update to your twitter by using 'post' (no quote) command. 
5. That's it.

Second way of Twittering still involving Google Talk but this time will not be limited to Twitter. HelloTXT is the application we will used and you could use it to update status in around of 50 social networking sites! Ain't that cool? Here's the howtos :

1. Register your account in here.
2. Add im@hellotxt.com in your Google Talk account. 
   
3. Simply go to setting after that and enables "Update by Google Talk". Notice that there are a lot of options there. You could update via SMS, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, or email. Anyway to ease my life, I prefer to use Google Talk.
4. After that you will be given the verification code. Send it to im@hellotxt.com from your Google Talk account.
5. Now you could directly post to your twitter by sending im@hellotxt.com a message. No need any command.

And the most important thing is as long you have an access to your Gtalk, you could update your Twitter or Social Networking sites using any phones.

Hope this could be useful.