Make Voice Calls on Twitter Using Phweet!

The thing about Twitter is that when conversations generate lots of replies and get exciting, sometimes you feel this need to take it to another venue to really get the discussion going. Stuart Henshall and David Beckemeyer realized this and came up with a way to integrate voice calls with Twitter in an interesting new service called Phweet. If you’ve got a Smart Phone, you’ll find that it’s incredibly easy to use. The moment you go to the Phweet website, you are asked to enter your Twitter username and password. Then type the username of the person you’d like to call. Phweet then creates a URL for the voice call, then sends a private message to the person with the link to join the call. You also have the option to choose between calling on the browser with a SIP URL or through services like Gizmo, Free World Dialup, or PhoneGnome – for free. There’s no way to make calls to a regular phone yet and while I won’t be surprised if they develop that in the future, I’m not gonna expect that part of the service to cost nothing.

Phweet is available to everyone for testing purposes so I suggest that you check it out and give them your feedback. The official launch is in 100 days and as the date draws nearer, I’m sure they’ll be making the service more feature rich and interactive.