To twitter from Skype, simply add username ‘twitter4skype’ to your contact list, and message the following (using Shift+Enter for new lines):
/account
username
password
However - I had great trouble turning it off again when I realised every few seconds new tweets started pouring into my window (and so down the side of the screen).
Turning it off again. To turn it on/off, type #on or #off respectively. Use #exit to log out. Now I know, I just need to share it before the next unsuspecting victim has to abandon their account.

I know hundreds of keen Twitter users. We’ve been there since the start, and loved it all the way. However, it seems that now the huge media boom surrounding it, and other social networking systems, it’s struggling to keep up. Constantly being bombarded with excuses, errors and more does not help its user-count.

It’s a classic case of the developers doing the business-man’s job. Having received over $80 million in funding, and still unable to afford scalable servers is quite frankly a scare.
Twitter’s always been built on Ruby, from the …