Get Jaiku and Twitter working in Twhirl

I normally don’t write howto’s but I was so incredibly appalled by the lack of twhirl’s usability when trying to post to Twitter and Jaiku simultaneously that I felt is was my duty help out other poor souls like myself who tried for hours to get it to work.

In the configuration window of twhirl you have the option of posting your tweets to Jaiku and Pownce. First of all, the input fields are without labels, but I can live with that. What irritates me more though, is that using asterisks suggests that you must fill in your password for the service (this is a common idiom online). It is the case for Pownce but not for Jaiku. To get your twhirl to post to Jaiku you must in fact fill out your API key, (Jaiku users can find it here) and not your password.

So, if anyone from twhirl reads this, please fix the issue. A simple quick and dirty solution would be to pre-fill the Jaiku input field with the text “Jaiku API Key”. Better solutions are welcome in the comments.

Oh and if anyone is looking for a Jaiku invite, feel free to ask.