How To Become a Level 80 Twitter Ninja
Posted 09/29/2009 at 2:54pm
| by Susie Ochs
How to Post to Twitter by Voice
If you’re already using super-versatile reminder service reQall for to-dos, your shopping list, or other reminders, having it post to your Twitter account is a bad idea. But if you’re not using the service at all, here’s how to set up a reQall account to transcribe your voice memos into tweets.

1. SIGN UP FOR REQALL
Go to www.reqall.com and sign up for a free account. Click Settings in the upper-right. Click Phone Access in the sidebar. Enter your phone number and click Save.
2. TURN ON YOUR RSS FEED
Click Feed in the sidebar, and check the box to enable an RSS feed of your reQall items. Then click the RSS button to open a window of the RSS feed. Save the URL of this feed; we’ll need it in step 3.
3. GO TO TWITTERFEED.COM
Sign up for a free account. Follow the prompts to set up a new feed to Twitter and link your Twitter account. Enter the URL from step 2 into the RSS Feed URL box. Under Advanced Settings, change the update frequency to 30 minutes--your tweets should be up within the hour. For post content, include the title only, and uncheck the box for Post Link. Click the Save Feed button.
4. ENTER REQALL AS A CONTACT
Enter reQall on your phone with these two numbers, if you’re in the United States: 888-9-REQALL (888-973-7255) is the toll-free option, and 408-715-7572 is the backup. (Look up numbers for the U.K. and Canada at www.reqall.com/about/faq.)
5. CALL REQALL
When prompted, say, “Add.” Then say something, pause for acknowledgement, and hang up. reQall will transcribe your speech and add the new item to your reQall list, which posts it to the RSS feed, which is pushed to Twitter by Twitterfeed.com. Some of your messages might be a bit garbled, but it’s a free no-hands tweet. Not bad.
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