Call your Twitter pals with Phweet

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

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Would you like to talk to your Twitter friends or set up a spontaneous conference call? Normally you’d have to agree to hook up over Skype or something else. But soon you could be making calls via Twitter.

Phweet is a new service which does just this (thanks to Pat Phelan of MaxRoam and Twitterfone for the tip-off). After signing in with your Twitter name and password you select how the call will be carried, either via browser, SIP ID or number/Mobile Phone. You then plug in your friend’s Twitter name and generate a “Phweet” which is a unique shortURL for sharing the call with one or more people.

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