If you still don’t know, Philippines is the texting or SMS capital of the world as reported. Here’s a photo news by CNET News featuring “The Philippines as texting central“. Because of the low costing of SMS, no wonder Filipinos uses this service.

With this trend, innovative services via SMS is delivered to consumers for entertainment, business and other information-driven services. Even internet services can now be accessed via SMS. Updating your Plurk and Twitter timeline? You can do that with just an SMS away… that’s blogging instantly!

I was using GTalk to update my Twitter and was sad to know that they disabled their IM service via GTalk. So, I stopped updating my Twitter. Just yesterday, I tried Plurk — another micro-blogging service. It’s cool… just similar to Twitter and Pownce.

Micro-blogging service is becoming more popular. They are usually text updates, around 140 text, of any thoughts you want to share to your online community. They can be updated via email, SMS, from the web or 3rd party applications developed by some contributors. Also, common to all is that they offer widgets and tools that allow you to embed your micro-blog timeline updates. That’s why I have them in this blog site, a blog with micro-blogs.

Here in the Philippines where SMS is cheap, offering services that would update your micro-blogs is just perfect. I just recently discovered that I can update my Twitter and Plurk timeline via SMS. With phTwitters and phPlurk, I can now just key-in a short text to update my micro-blog timeline.

Just follow this steps:

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FOR TWITTER USERS

To register, send REG [username] [password]

To update your timeline, send TWIT [your update]

To send a direct message, text TWITD [username] [your message]

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FOR PLURK USERS

To register, send PREG [username] [password]

To update your timeline, send either PLURK [your update] or PLURK [qualifier] [your update]

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All SMS can be send to the following gateway numbers.

  • GLOBE - +63-916-4967171
  • SMART - +63-929-3632359

Note: Standard SMS costing applies. For more information, please visit the following sites for FAQ.

http://phtwitters.com/cms/node/2
http://phplurk.com/node/2

Enjoy and keep updating!