Dan York, chief conversationalist at Voxeo, reports that a developer with the pseudonym “Devoh” used Voxeo’s Tropo API-based development platform as part of a hack to let people phone into Twitter. The new service, called Tweeter Phone, enables registered callers to hear recent tweets from their selected friends. Devoh reportedly attended a single Tropo introductory session, then went home and spent five hours to bring up the new service. This is the sort of rapid application development and API-based phone mashup that is destined to keep the telephone (most likely mobile ) an integral part of everyday communication, community-building and commerce.

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