Around the Great Lakes

Twitter

Twitter is going to be an important part of the expedition. I’m planning on using the good cell phone service surrounding much of the route to post tweets to Twitter, which will in turn show up on this website or for anyone following me via Twitter.

The easy part of this is I can simply text a message to Twitter, and Twitter will post it directly. The hard part is trying to text while paddling, so I’m trying a couple of solutions. The primary solution is using reQall to generate a feed to pass to Twitterfeed, which in turn posts the reQall feed to Twitter.

This solution makes it easy to post to Twitter while paddling, because after I call a toll-free phone number, I can leave a message to the number, and reQall listens to voice messages, converts them to text, and passes that text message on to Twitterfeed. Twitterfeed takes any RSS feed, and passes it to Twitter. Twitterfeed would also be nice to pass all my different web-page feeds onto my Twitter account. It’s really pretty nice.

Not every voice message will be converted correctly, but it’ll make posting to Twitter pretty easy.

Tags: reQall, RSS, Twitter, Twitterfeed