Have you twitterized your phone yet? If not, you may want to consider doing so as soon as possible. Twitterizing your phone simply means setting up a twitter account on your phone and adding applications that supplement twitter’s system. By twitterizing your phone, you can do much more than you could have done if you twittered “out of the box,” so to speak. So unless your phone is twitterized, you may not get the full effect of the twitter experience.

How To Use Twitter On Your Phone

If you don’t already know, twitter is an online social networking system that utilizes a unique concept called microblogging, the sending and receiving of 140 character text posts. Although Twitter’s base platform is the computer, since the overall concept is microblogging, it makes sense that you are properly equipped to make tweets when you’re on the go.

Setting Up Your Twitter Account

Before even thinking about installing other applications, you should already have a twitter account and understand how it is used. To sign up for twitter, go to twitter.com and press the join button to make an account. After entering some basic personal information and selecting a username, you will be granted with an online Twitter profile.

From your homepage, you will now need to enable SMS capabilities to forward all tweets to your cell phone. Click on the Settings link in the upper-right hand corner of the page, and the direct to the Phone and IM settings. On this page, save your cell phone number and confirm that Twitter should send TXT messages to your phone (Standard SMS carrier rates will be charged). All tweets will now be transmitted from your profile to your phone, and can be sent out in the same manner by sending text messages to the twitter number you have been given.

3 Additional Tools For Mobile Twitter

1. ceTwit - Using the .Net compact framework, ceTwit is a mobile twitter client for windows mobile phones. Your tweets are displayed via a timeline, similar to how they would be seen on your online profile. Other features include click to reply, automatic refresh, follow/unfollow, and twitpic support, which lets you use pictures from twitter on your cell phone. To download ceTwit, visit www.kosertech.com.
2. GPS Twit - If GPS is accessible on your phone, you can use GPS Twit to track your location by GPS. On every tweet posted from your cell phone, your GPS location will be appended at the end of your post.
3. TwitToday - Having tweets sent by text message is great, but whats even better is having them displayed directly on your desktop. Once TwitToday has been installed on your phone, updates will be downloaded and placed on the Today screen of your windows mobile device.