Loading ...140 characters is a rather arbitrary point at which to cut off a passage of speech. But it’s there, and you love Twitter because of it…except for when you’re trying to have a conversation. There comes a time when people starting saying, “140 chars just isn’t enough”, and, “where do we move to? I’ll tweet you my email address”. Yeh, sure - great idea - let’s publish our ever-so-slightly-obfuscated email addresses in the Twitter public timeline.
We noticed people recommending Nurphy as the place to go to when more than 140 characters are required: http://twitter.com/jonhickman/statuses/4894950497
And we can see why people might want an alternative; Email feels clunky after the almost IM-like form factor of Twitter, and we all want something that leverages social Web conventions for conversation convenience. There’s productivity benefits to be had here, not just a little extra eye candy.
So, to make the Twitter-to-Nurphy transition even easier for you, Nurphy now has ‘Login Via Twitter’. This means that within one click you can join a Nurphy conversation and import your Twitter profile, avatar, and username. Super simple! It’s like moving from Twitter to your very own chat room, and with no extra hassle.
And on the other end of this workflow, Nurphy conversations come with short URLs which are easily tweeted to your followers (or Facebook friends). Someone Tweets the URL, and everyone else logs in via Twitter (or email). Does it get much simpler than that?
p.s. if you’re new to Nurphy and you want to test this out, just hit this URL and say hi to the Nurphy team: http://nurphy.com/xd5me7, we really, really want to hear from you!
