Can you say Tweet?
Author: will | Filed under: 2008, Cork City, Cork Open Coffee, Irish, Uncategorized, invention, open coffee, technology, telephoneOne of the little things that happen at the Cork Open Coffee are the demos. On April 27 the attendees got a pre-release demo of Pat Phelan’s new project … Twitterfone.com
Image by netzkobold via Flickr
The idea is rather simple. Ring a local telephone number (currently US, UK and Ireland) and leave a 15 second voice message. Be careful what you say (or cough as Michael Arrington discovered), and your message is converted to text in a tweet on your twitter account. In addition a recording is also available (via a tinyurl), which is handy if your message doesn’t fit in to 140 characters of less. Yes we talk that fast in Ireland.
Its a useful service, especially if you are in a crisis situation and can’t talk for long.
I’ll be honest when I say that I’m dying to try it out, but given the sudden tidal wave of registrations it might be a little while.
And Twitterfone’s look is a Sabrina Dent creation.
take care,
tweet safely,
Will Knott
Tags: business, Ireland, Michael Arrington, Pat Phelan, Telephony, Twitterfone
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