djByron [Dan Byron]husband, father, christian, musician & technophile ( but not a dj )

So I’m sort of a micro-blogging “enthusiast”… So much so that I developed my own micro blog for personal use. Maybe someday I’ll open it up to some friends to use but for now it’s just a place that I can post some micro “journal” entries for monumental and every day family events.

So the question was… “How can I post an entry to all these sites without having to go to each one separately?” If you’re looking to only post to Twitter and Jaiku one option is to use IMified. They have an “app” so-to-speak that will allow you to post to both Twitter and Jaiku via the IM of your choice. This was nice for a while, the only problem with this service is that the IMified bot was down quite a bit and posting to Twitter was sporadic. That lead me to start searching again… I recently discovered HelloTxt.com. The beauty of HelloTxt is that it can post to even more services and it is very reliable. The one down side is that you have to post via browser (no IM option yet). Having an iPhone this really isn’t a problem but might be if you’re looking to post via IM or SMS. Another downside for Facebook users is that you can’t update your status with HelloTxt directly. However, I did find a round about way to do it using Twitters Facebook app! Simply add the Twitter app in Facebook, give it access to update your status and now you can update all your micro-blogging sites as well as your Facebook status in one place using HelloTxt! Really sweet…

[UPDATE 1-27-08] A developer from HelloTxt.com just emailed me letting me know that they’ve added direct updating of one’s Facebook status from the site. No need to use the Twitter’s Facebook app to update the status!! Awesome!