Thread: How to make Use Outlook to Access Twitter

If you use Outlook to manage your contacts, calendar, e-mail, and the like, why not use it for all your Twitter activity too? That's the idea behind Twlnbox; a no-cost plugin that adds a Twitter toolbar to Outlook.

Once installed, TwIn box places a new folder in your inbox. (It can also make individual folders for each sender, which you might find helpful from an organizational standpoint-unless you follow lots of people.) From there you just supply your Twitter user name and password, and presto:

The plug-in fetches all the tweets from your account and lets you read them just as you read e-mail.

A click of the toolbar is all you need to do to send out an update, to send a direct message, to reply to a message, or to retweet something. Twlnbox automatically shortens any long Web addresses via TinyURL.

The tool bar also shows you a preview of new tweets as they arrive, which saves you from having to switch over to the tweets folder every time you want to check for updates.

In shorr, Twlnbox is a terrific little utility, and it's a musthave tool for any Twitter-loving Outlook user. I do wish that it could handle more than one Twitter account, but I can't argue with the price:

TwInbox is free.

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Ben Thomas