Tutorial on How to use iChat as a Twitter client
June 10th, 2009, Hedi Regaya | View Comments
Many times requested, a lot of friends and iChat buddies and Twitter friends want to have this result:
The tutorial starts after the jump:
- Download PSI from the following link: download PSI for Mac OS X
- Start PSI and create an account and name it with any name you want (it’s not your login name):
Then, enter a server name (mine is njs.netlab.cz and is very reliable)
Choose the username you want and the password you want, then click “OK”: your jabber account is created: 
- Now go online with your created Jabber account right onto PSI (with a right click like in the following screenshot):

- Now we’re going to configure the Twitter account: right click again on your account name on the PSI main window and select “Service Directory”, a window will popup with a list of services you can connect to (you can do the same with MSN, Yahoo and more): select the Twitter Transport Beta and right click on it:
Select “register” and enter you Twitter login and password. - Now go to iChat and go to preferences cmd + , and go to the “accounts” pan:
Click on the + button and select “jabber”, then enter the login and password you created in step 2 - A lot of popups will appear, you have to accept them all, now you can use iChat as a Twitter client; to Tweet a friend of yours double click on his name in the iChat Twitter Contact list and Type, if you want to post a Tweet, you have to double click on a contact named home@twitter.jabbim.com and write a message.
- Only side effect for Growl Users


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Nice! Now, only if i tweeted…
One problem: URLs entered this way appear twice, once with brackets around it. Fix: Put brackets around the URL to begin with.
Also, I’ve got a lot of people I’m following marked as “waiting for authorization.” How do I fix this?f
Jim, I didn’t get the errors you had… But as you may have noticed iChat wasn’t designed to support Twitter, this is just a trick, it won’t make things better than a Twitter client or Twitter.com
Will see if I can get any answer to you problem, but since the tutorial is an exclusive MacAmour production I’m not sure I’ll find a lot of help around…
Actually it seems there’s not a problem at all. Those people who are marked as “waiting for authorization” haven’t Twittered since I started iChat.
Perfect
Great list! I myself prefer NOT to include my tweets in my professional blog but I can see how that ability would be good in others…
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