Use Twitter Tweet As Messenger Status Message

Saturday, October 25, 2008 | posted in , | 3 comments

Twitter has become so popular and have a fast growing user base in all over the world. You can use twitter to update your friends what you are doing at any given time, share your thoughts and feelings, and even you can use twitter to do marketing research or update your followers that your servers have just crashed from business perspective.



Like many social network tools, you can sync up your twitter tweet at many social network system like facebook, friendfeed and many more. Today, I'm going to show you how to updates your messenger status message at regular intervals to reflect your latest twitter tweet.



For Windows live messenger User (Windows)





  1. Download Twessenger (a Twitter add-in for Windows Live Messenger) from http://kunal.kundaje.net/twessenger/Twessenger.msi

  2. Before you install, make sure your have Windows Live Messenger 8.1 or higher and .NET Framework 2.0 installed in your XP or Vista machine.

  3. After install Twessenger, goto "Messenger Menu> Tools> Options".

  4. Select "Add-ins" from the items in the left pane of the options window.

  5. Click the "Add to Messenger" button, then go to C:\Program Files\Twessenger. Select the "Twessenger.Twessenger.dll" file.

  6. Click the "Settings" button, enter your Twitter username, and click OK.

  7. Click on your display name at the top of the Messenger contact list window. Click the "Turn on Twessenger" item in the drop-down menu. Your personal message should change to your latest Twitter tweet immediately.




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Source: http://kunal.kundaje.net/twessenger/



For Pigin User (Linux)





  1. Download pidgin-twitterstatus from http://pidgin-twitterstatus.googlecode.com/files/twitter-0.3.0.pl

  2. Copy twitter-0.3.0.pl to ~/.purple/plugins/

  3. Install XML::XPath perl module

    4. Open Terminal, type





    1. perl -MCPAN -e shell

    2. get XML::XPath

    3. make XML::XPath

    4. test XML::XPath

    5. install XML::XPath


  4. Using Pidgin, navigate to Tools | Plugins and find Twitter Status Feed. Enable it, and Click the Configure Plugin button to open the plugin configuration dialog. Enter your Twitter username and click Close.

  5. Restart pidgin

  6. Now, you should see Twitter tweet at the bottom of Pidgin windows.




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Source: http://code.google.com/p/pidgin-twitterstatus

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3 Responses So far
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Anonymous
on October 25, 2008 at 9:09 PM  

Never try twitter, i saw you used before and seemed stupid, hahahaha~

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Anonymous
on October 27, 2008 at 9:50 PM  

Can't work with MSN Live 2009 man.. and btw quoted from our conversation

"Chow Chen How says:
say thank you or praise me very handsome"

Yes you are indeed very handsome.. Too bad you aren't avail anymore.. otherwise have tons of chick for you..

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Anonymous
on October 27, 2008 at 10:48 PM  

U phony... haha

Anyway, there is no working solution for twitter to works with the latest Windows Live Messenger 2009 Beta.

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