How to Add Twitter to Google Wave

You can even integrate your Twitter account into Google Wave by using a Twitter extension. It’s really easy. Here’s how.

First, you’ll need to add tweety-wave@appspot.com to your contacts.

Secondly, you’ll need to create a new wave and add Tweety to the wave. When you do this, you’ll want to make sure that your pop-up blocker is turned off because the Tweety extension will be added to the wave and a window will pop-up asking you for your Twitter login details.

Enter your Twitter login details when the window pops up.

Once you have logged in Tweety the Twitbot will display all your friend’s Twitter updates and allow you to update your Twitter status.

There are a couple things worth mentioning. One, the usernames of the Twitter users that you are following show up as “username@tweety-wave.appspot.com.” Because of this, you can’t click on these usernames and view their Twitter page. Hopefully, this would be changed in the future.

Secondly, any participant of the wave with Tweety can tweet on behalf of the authenticated Twitter user. So that means, if I am logged in with Tweety, and I add Tim to the Wave, Tim could tweet from my account, since I am logged in under that wave.

Overall, I don’t see the Tweety extension having the same power as say an application like TweetDeck or logging into your Twitter account from the web, but it is beneficial to be able to centralize Twitter right into your Google Wave account.