By going to tweet.im and registering for their twitter to jabber gateway, I've got a new contact in my google talk list that lists all of the twits that I'm following and lets me update my twitterings via a message to the gtalk user.

I've also got gtalk setup in irc, along with msn, using bitlbee. So I've effectively got irc to twitter working and it only took me about 30 seconds!

Several places I've worked have, for various reasons, blocked access to Microsoft Messenger and other chat protocols. For various reasons of my own I want to use Messenger and therefore have various methods for accessing the service.

My latest way of doing things is to run a Bitlbee daemon that presents various chat protocols, including Messenger, as irc channels. This means that I can connect using a terminal irc client, accessible via ssh.