Drop.io + Twitter = Tweet.io
Tweet.io is a way to feed content added to a drop.io 'drop' instantly into your twitter feed. You simply 'subscribe' your twitter account to updates from your drop.io drop by entering your twitter username and password... add items to your drop via any ‘input’, we convert it for you, we twitter a direct link for you. (any media --> drop.io --> twitter). So, add anything to your drop - pictures, video, audio, documents, files, notes, links - via almost any drop.io input - web, widget, email/mms, voicemail, fax - the items will instantly be placed in your twitter feeds with direct links. Your twitter 'followers' can in one click experience any media type on the fly... So, you can directly leave voicemail right into twitter or even fax all your followers.
Advanced Directions: custom tweets and email/mms simply by writing your
Customize your tweets when you subscribe your twitter account to your drop you can customize the way tweets are sent using our simple mini-language, using calls like [item url], [item type], etc. Sending in Email/MMS if you are sending in email or MMS to your drop, the resulting tweet will be automatically auto-formatted as ‘[email subject]:[email body] [direct link]’ this way if you send in photos, other file attachments, or just long notes, the tweets can be totally customized on the fly.. try it – it works really well
Demo Video sure, this video is a little old (pre-redesign), but it will give you the idea...
A Very Important Note on PRIVACY and Twitter: At drop.io we believe in collecting and saving as little meta-data and user information as is possible both as a matter of privacy and simplicity. We don't have accounts, we don't ask for your name, etc. We all love twitter and are excited about the function we have built with their service, but their system forces us to store your twitter username and password (securely on our side) and transmit it to twitter in a non-secure way.
First, as a user please consider this before using the twitter/drop.io integration. Second, as a service we are uncomfortable with this situation, but there is no other way for us (or any other service that allows you to post tweets) to offer the functionality. Please read our open letter to twitter and consider supporting our official petition asking twitter to prioritize the creation of a secure authentication system. (please spread this if you believe in it)
Use tweet.io with care tweet.io is a very powerful function and you should consider carefully how your drop(s) are set up and how you would like them to interact with your twitter feed before subscribing your twitter account. Specifically of concern, if your drop is set so that non-admins can 'add' to your drop then people you might prefer not be able to add to your twitter feed will be able to put content onto your account. We recommend that you set the drop so that others can [view only] for most normal uses of the function and make sure that there is [no user password] (the password you set on the homepage, as opposed to the ‘administration’ password. That way, you and your trusted friends can add to the drop (and thereby the feed) but your followers or others who find your account can't. There are other ways to create similar effects (password protecting your drop, making sure your twitter feed is private, etc....) - all we ask is that you think before you leap and make sure you are comfortable with the concept that whomever can add to your drop can add to your twitter feed.
To recount, we normally recommend you set your drop to be [view only] and [no user password]
More advanced:This is a very flexible feature. You can subscribe an infinite number of twitter feeds to any given 'drop' and as many drops as you want to any given feed...We have some really interesting ideas on how users will deploy this function beyond the obvious "to add media items to my personal twitter feed" - if you are doing something cool with the function let us know via twitter... we are always fascinated and it would be great if you would write a 'hack' for us...