twitter4skype is another working prototype of a twitter-to-Skype gateway. Robert Sanzalone is sharing this simple service that shows your twitter stream.

Add twitter4skype as a contact.

As I'm showing in the picture on the left, register by IMing:

/account
yourtwittername
yourtwitterpassword

Dan York thinks twitter should use OpenID for account access; this would avoid sharing your twitter login/password with a third party. Jim Courtney brought this up in connection with the Mobivox launch that lets you talk to a Skype client via your mobile phone. There's a lot of trust in sharing your login info with strangers.

Must say I'm groovin on twitter4skype. Unlike most of the desktop clients for twitter, Skype keeps a full, searchable record of the twits. And I live in my browser and Skype most of the day.

Prior art: Hans Blaauw's sKwitter plug-in that used Skype's mood message to update Twitter.

This is a topic of the day, so join us in the Skype and Twitter public chat.