Twitterfone launched last night to a spectacular response. Mike Arrington gave it a glowing report on TechCrunch and the feedback has been very positive.
What does Twitterfone do? Not much! It does one thing and it does it well. It allows you to dial a local number, leave a short message, the message is then transcribed and posted to your Twitter account along with a link to the audio file in case the transcription doesn’t quite come out.
The best use case for this is in your car when you shouldn’t can’t browse!
I have no idea how well it works if you are outside your own country but Pat being the king of roaming, I imagine he is all over that.
Just how good is it? Well I just left a message saying “@patphelan looks like everyone is looking for a twitterfone invite” and got the following Tweet posted:
ask Pat Phelan looks like everyone is lookig for a twitterfone invoice
It obviously had issues with my enunciation (although listening back, the quality of the line left a lot to be desired).
A couple of things Pat will need to add to improve it (and I assume Pat has already thought of these):
- Support for Twitter commands – @, and d particularly and
- OpenID support – it still amazes me that people build their own proprietary login systems when they can leverage OpenID and facilitate single sign-on for their users
Well done to Pat and the rest of the team for getting this up. I look forward to watching its evolution.
