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Twitter: Now as powerful as the Clapper

John Biggs

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Biggs is the East Coast Editor of TechCrunch. Biggs has written for the New York Times, InSync, USA Weekend, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Money and a number of other outlets on technology and wristwatches. He is the former editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.com and lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. You can Tweet him here and G+ him here. Email him directly at... → Learn More

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
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If you can’t get enough of Twitter why not try Twitter-enabling your home? By connecting his cellphone with his Twitter account, Justin Wickett has created what amounts to a remote switch triggered by Twitter messages.

By using a simple program he was able to connect SmartHome’s INSTEON switches to the Internet and control them with a ping from Twitter.

http://www.vidiLife.com/flash/flvplayer.swf?xml=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2EvidiLife%2Ecom%2Fmedia%2Fplay%5Fflash%5Fxml%2Ecfm%3Fid%3D23504F62%252DB0AF%252D47B8%252D870D%252D6%26f%3Dflash8%26embed%3Dtrue

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