BIS Lite and Twitter Part 2

We have discussed about updating Twitter from Google Talk earlier and now I will share my idea of using  BIS Lite (Emails and Chat) to get Twitter updates.

Why am I doing this while you could just simply pay for full BlackBerry Internet Service? Well, it is very simple. I spend most of my days sitting in front of computer. Perhaps around 10-12 hours a day so it will be such a waste if I pay IDR 180,000 for BIS by Telkomsel. BIS Lite is already proven useful for me.

Nowadays, I get informations mostly from Twitter. Here are few useful tweeter fellows that you might want to follow :

• TMCPoldaMetro -> Jakarta's traffic information
• OKEZ0NE -> One of the biggest news portal in Indonesia
• kompasdotcom -> Biggest Newspaper in Indonesia
  
• BlackBerry -> RIM's official Twitter
• fp_pnp -> Forumponsel.com buying and selling Twitter. Never missed what you want to buy!
  
• GilaPromoDotCom -> Informations about promotions, discounts, sale and whatsoever
• jobsinindonesia -> do you want to work here? :)
• GamepadMagazine -> a Jakarta Gamer's Twitter
  
• ID_ARSENAL -> the official Arsenal FC - Indonesia supporter's Twitter
• engadget -> its Engadget.com
• boygeniusreport -> We're lucky that it's not about this boy, but it tweets about boy toys!

Okay, that was few of them on my list. Can you see how much information you'll get from Twitter? That's why I like to use it more than any social networking sites. Back to topic, to receive Twitter updates, we will use another third party helps. I always wonder why this third party is everywhere and the best part is they serve us for free! (horray for that.. for now...)

Here is the howtos :

1. We will use the service by tweetbymail. 
2. Simply just register your account
3. Go to setting
4. Click tab Updates and in "Sending updates to" type your email address and click "Set Updates"
5. And to get all your @replies click tab Trackings, type your email address and click "Set Trackings"
6. You should check your inbox because I use @live.com and @gmail.com and both of them filter the @twmail.com as spam or junk.
7. Done.

Enjoy :)

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.