How it works?

It works using a two step approach. The paying and receiving of payments are done from the Twitter itself. In the Background, Twitpay makes  a note of the transactions and store it. Later you can visit Twitpay and discard or settle all your Transactions. Twitpay uses Amazon Payments to settle the transactions.

Sending and Receiving Payments

• Use Twitter Website or any other Twitter Client and send your Payments to any friends. Use the following format.

@Friend Twitpay $20 for Movie Tickets

• This does not work with people having Protected Updates. So you have to Unprotect your Updates in Twitter
• You can send payments between $0.01 to $1000 in any increment. Twitpay charges a nickel for payments above $0.99

Settling the Transactions

• When you send a Payment, Twitpay make a note of the transaction on your and recipents Twitpay account.
• Claim your Twitpay Account from their site
• In case you want to cancel a transaction, remove it from your Twitpay account
• When you want to clear the transactions and make the payment, Twitpay will take you to Amazon Payments and let you complete the transaction. Its as simple as that.
• You can view your receive funds at your Twitpay.me Account at -> http://twitpay.me/yourtwittername

Personal Thoughts

It is a nice concept. Basically they ahve manage to use the popularity of Twitter and the ease of use of services like Paypal/Amazon Payments. It works great. Its secured. And the all transactions are handled by a trusted brand like Amazon. What more do you want..??

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Step 1. Add @GCAL as your friend in Twitter. GCAL is a bot which will forward your event detail to your Google Calendar Account.

Step 2. Visit TwitterCal and update your Twitter Username and Gmail Account Name. TwitterCal will authorize your Google Account with your Twitter Account. By doing this, it knows which Gogole Calendar Account to register the events.

Step 3. Post a Direct Message to GCAL to register your events in Google Calendar.

How to Unsubscribe from the Service

Step 1. Open Google Accounts ->  Go to Change Authorize Websites

Step 2. Revoke Access foe TwitterCal

Message Formats

• Use “d GCAL” when sending message from external client or your Twitter Homepage
• Do not use “d GCAL” if you are sending message from Twitter.com/DCAL page, els your Event Title will append the words “d CAL” to the title
• Use Google Calendar’s Quick Add Syntax to create events. Click here to learn how to use Quick Tags.

Some Common Examples

• Football at 5pm
• Office Meeting Next Tuesday at 2 pm
• French Lessons Wednesdays 8 pm repeats weekly for 12 weeks

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Step 1. Go to http://sxoop.com/twitter/mosaic.pl

Step 2. Enter your Email Address. Select to show Twitter Friends or Followers and Press GO Button.

Step 3. Get the Code and Paste in your Blog Editor. Remember to use the HTML Editor and not the Visual Editor.

Note: You will be creating a long list of Images and Links. To avoid negatively affecting your Site’s SEO copy the code in a text editor first and replace  href= with  rel=”nofollow” href. This will append a nofollow tag to your links and tell Search Engine Spiders to not weigh the links.

Here is how the output looks… Pretty neat isn’t it..

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If you like me, are an avid Google Reader user and want to share your favorite articles with your Twitter Followers, here is a quick way to do it:

Step 1: Open Google Reader. On the left hand side you will find the Sidebar. Click on “Your Stuff”

Step 2: Every Google Reader has a Unique ID Associated with it. Check your Address Bar and note the same. IT would be a string of Digits located between the “%2F” characters.

Step 3: Open TwitterFeed. Its a free services not affiliate to Twitter, and helps integrate your RSS with Twitter. You can login to your TwitterFeed account using OpenID (OpenID wiki). Since you are already using Google Reader, you can use your Google Login as an OpenID provider.

Step 4: Click on New Feed, and start entering the details. As simple as that.

• Enter your Twitter Username and Password, so TwitterFeed knows where it will post your Updates.
• In the RSS Feed URL, Enter the following Feed -  “http://www.google.com/reader/public/atom/user%2F10316601016267458964%2Fstate%2Fcom.google%2Fbroadcast”. Replace the strikeout characters by your Google Reader Unique ID.
• Set the Update Frequency and Number of Updates. You can post maximum 5 Updates per Half hour. Maximum 5 updates cap is there to limit your Twitter Account to be marked as Spam.
• You can also Edit how your Update will look. You can set it for “Title Only”, “Description Only” or both. I would prefer “Title Only” owing to Twitter’s short updates.
• You can also select a Link shortening service. TinyURL and SnipURL are my favorites. But there are other services also.
• Finally you can also prefix your Updates with some common text. And also selectively post Items based on specified keywords.
• Once done, Click Save and you are set to go. TwitterFeed will update your Google Reader’s shared items in your Twitter Account. Yeppie..!!

Got a cool Twitter Tip? Share it with me and other readers via comments. Happy Maha Shivratri. Have a nice Day..!!

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