Phweet: Leveraging Social Media Twitter + VoIP

Here is a service (Phweet, in public Alpha) that leverages the Twitter network to IM a friend/follower that you would like to speak with them and then completes the call via VoIP.

A friend who is well-known to many in the Web 2.0 arena, Stuart Henshall, and his colleague David Beckemeyer (TelEvolution / PhoneGnome, Earthlink), have just launched Phweet, a service whereby a user with one click can ask someone who has just twittered (or pownced, or jaiku’d, or fed a friend or kwipped) whether or not they will accept a VoIP call.  Once accepted, voila !  Connection is established and the voice conversation begins. Via Fast Forward Blog

Not sure how useful this will be since Twitter is asynchronous which allows you to answer when you have time, whereas this amounts to a forced interruption like a phone call. Convenient, for sure.

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