Use Twitter from Outlook using OutTwit

Here’s an interesting piece of tool that can turn your Outlook client into a Twitter communicator. It’s called OutTwit (Outlook+Twitter). This small tool, only 550KB in size, lets you update your Twitter status and follow your friends from outlook itself. You don’t even need to open any other application to do any Twitter related activities. OutTwit has a seamless integration with Outlook that makes all the communication between Outlook and Twitter work like a charm.

 

Here’s a list of Twitter related things you can do using OutTwit from Outlook that you will find interesting.

• Update your Twitter status directly from Outlook.
• Configurable new message check interval.
• Receive your friend updates as Outlook messages.
• Assign custom categories to new messages.
• Shorten URLs with tinyurl.
• Archive, manage and search your tweets the same way you manage your email.
• Automatically sort new tweets into per-sender folders.
• See graphs of your Twitter usage statistics.
• Supports proxy servers.

OutTwit for Outlook runs on Windows 2000, XP and Vista. It is compatible with Outlook 2003 and 2007 (with latest Service Packs). OutTwit does NOT work with Outlook Express.

» Why don’t you try Twitter from Outlook? Download OutTwit now!