I use Twitter, as to millions upon millions of others.

Having just finished a Skritter session, I felt the urge to force my followers to recognize my brilliance*, in the form of this Tweet: I've learned 118 new Chinese characters this week! Thanks Skritter! - http://www.skritter.com/.

Soon after pressing enter I realized that Twitter has a pretty good API for things like this. And that I'd like it if I could set an option within Skritter to Tweet every X new characters learned, X amount of time studied and/or whatever stat per week/month...

1) This would allow me to keep my stellar Twitter rep'*

2) Free and relatively simple way for you (Skritter) to market yourselves through automated word of mouth.

3) Be generally awesome.

The option would consist of three components: twitter username, twitter password, tweet frequency/stat choices. It would be off by default, as it cannot be assumed that every user likes/uses Twitter.

* = sarcasm.

This is definitely on the list (matthewdolman suggested it a couple weeks ago, too). I think it would be easiest to just have it tweet every time you learned X new characters (so like 100, 200, 300 or 50, 100, 150).

Maybe it would be useful to tweet every week how many characters / words you learned, in how much time. Although, if you didn't practice much that week, it would say, "I've learned 3 characters this week," or something like that. Maybe that's good, as it publicizes your slacking off.

What do you guys think? Tweet every week, or tweet every X characters? I guess we'll run a poll soon to see how many of you would use Twitter for this.

Definitely tweet every week.

Might be cool to have a feed somewhere on the Skritter site for those who don't use twitter, with other people's progress.

Be careful to not spam ! Should be only on special occazion !

By the way this is my twitter account, if anyone from the Skritter Community wants to ad me : http://www.twitter.com/tortue

我也爱自己！

Twitter integration is a super idea. My vote is for one tweet per time interval (week, month, whatever), rather than one per fixed number of characters. I think it's more interesting to see "I learned 47 characters this week" than to see "I learned 100 characters in the last 26 days".

While we're on the topic of APIs, a Facebook app with similar functionality would be great, too. Both of these are terrific ways to get your brand in front of a bunch of new people.

I'm building the Twitter tie-in now, since it looked pretty easy. I'm going to need a lot of feedback on it, though, once I put it up.

Okay, first version is up at:
http://www.skritter.com/reminders

The tweets/emails won't happen instantaneously, but rather wait until the next reminder interval passes.

This is my first stab at a tweet format:

"Learned 105 Chinese characters on Skritter (now at 2586) in the past 13 days; goal was 100. Practiced for 25:16 and reviewed 24638 items."

The emails say basically the same thing, but in more words.

I'll blog about this now and you can comment in either place.

Where does it get the goal from?

never mind, i'm retarded and found it >_<

If you add the tag "#FB" to the twitter message, it's automatically posted on your Facebook page. Is it possible to add it (for those who want it) ?

Thx in advance,

Okay, I've added that option. It'll go live later today when I upload it.