It’s unbelievable what our phones can do. We know lots of people tweet what they’re doing on Twitter, but with the addition of a Nokia phone and the Qik service, you can SHOW people what you’re doing right now. This is possible by automatically letting Twitter know whenever you start streaming on Qik. I’ll show you how.

Example: automatic tweet from Nokia N95 8GB using Qik

What you need first: You’ll need a cameraphone (I’m using the Nokia N95 8GB as an example), a Twitter account, and a Qik account.

Setting It Up

• Sign in to your Qik profile then click edit profile -> Networks. Twitter is the first one on the list. Click here if you can’t find it.
• Click Edit this account then type your login info from Twitter.
• On the message form, type what you want to show up as the first phrase on each ‘tweet.’ I chose live video for my account.
• Check “Tweet all videos” so that videos automatically get announced on Twitter.
• Click save changes. Done.

Setting it up

Using It

• Open up Qik on your phone.
• Optional, but I recommend setting a title for each stream. You can do this by Menu -> Stream Info -> Set Title.
• When you’re ready just press “Stream.” Your twitter friends will be notified right away and can watch what you’re doing live instead of just reading about it.

Set the title on Qik. Here’s my tweet example for this post.

You are now ready to live stream and Tweet at the same time. Be careful with a live drunk tweet though… you might regret it in the morning.