Use FriendFeed as a Twitter Client
I debated about which blog to post this too, as it really does seem obvious to me. However, I’ve seen so many people ask how to use FriendFeed as a Twitter client that it’s apparently not particularly obvious to anyone else.
- Create a new room in FriendFeed, name it something like TwitterForUsername (since rooms can’t share the same name, you can’t just make it ‘TwitterClient’).
- Make it private.
- In your new room, feed in your Twitter posts.
- Visit search.twitter.com and search for @TwitterUsername. Feed this into your new room.
- Now your room includes your tweets and tweets to you. Your outbound Tweets will offer the ability to post back to Twitter. Tweets sent to you will not, but you can tell who sent the tweet to you by hovering over the link.
- To post a new tweet, simply add a FriendFeed comment to one of your incoming tweets, making sure to check the box to post it to Twitter.
Is it ideal? No, obvoiusly not. Will it work as a standalone Twitter client? Yup.
