Twitter is an amazingly powerful tool for performing almost real-time research, interacting with colleagues and customers and generally keeping up-to-date on the world in general. Therefore it was a given that I would write a plug-in for it. In fact this is the first of three plug-ins for Twitter in this book. Using this one you can send a Tweet to your own account.

The Figure shows the result of sending a tweet to your own account.

Posting a tweet to Twitter is easy with this plug-in