Friday, October 21, 2011

Use Siri to Update Facebook and Twitter

I got my iPhone 4S on launch day and I absolutely love Siri! Unfortunately there is no Twitter or Facebook integration for Siri out of the box. There are some fairly straight forward workarounds, though.

Facebook
To update your Facebook status:
  1. Create a new contact in your address book and name it something other than "Facebook". "Facebook" is a reserved word and Siri will tell you it can't interact with it. I named mine "Face".
  2. Find your Facebook email address on the Facebook Mobile site and set that as the email address.
  3. Now you can just email status updates to Facebook using Siri. Facebook uses the Subject line as the status update.



Twitter
Twitter doesn't have native email updating capability so, instead, use SMS to send Twitter updates:
  1. Link your phone to Twitter on the Devices page.
  2. Create a new contact in your address book and name it something other than "Twitter" or "Tweet". These are both reserved words for Siri. I named mine "Toot"
  3. Set the phone number to 40404.
  4. Send a text message to your contact.

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