social media through jabber
i ‘m currently using three social networking sites. identica, twitter, facebook. so i needed a tool to update all three simultaneously. even better i ‘d like to have the ability to choose an update to show up only on identica/twitter and not on facebook.
it seems that ping.fm is what i needed, so i signed up for a account. but i didn’t want to use its web interface, so i started looking for a desktop client. unfortunately with no luck. then a friend pointed to me that ping.fm supports im accounts!
so here is what i did. i added pingdotfm at gmail.com as a jabber contact on my client (pidgin) and connected my jabber account with my jabber account sending my verification code. you can find yours here, after you login to ping.fm.
so now i ‘m able to update all three networks through pidgin. additionally ping.fm has triggers for every network. for instance if i want to update only identica i just use the @id trigger at the start of my message. i also created a group that contains identica and twitter (since i update them more frequently) with a hash tag for trigger.
the only problem is that pidgin can’t count characters. but hey! i can’t have everything :P of course i can’t read network streams through pidgin (although there are some 3rd party plugins) so i’m thinking of using gwibber that supports all three of them.
good news is that twitterfeed also supports ping.fm, so my feeds can hit all three networks at once :)
PS. i don’t like the term social networking, i consider identica and twitter to be new/social media services (social networking is not the main thing) and facebook just a social networking service.
