We’ve added integration with Twitter, the popular SMS/microblogging site. Basically, it’s an easy way to add a book to your LibraryThing while standing in a bookstore, library or friend’s house.
Go to the new Edit your profile: Sites page to add your username. Once you follow LThing, you can direct message at any time to add a book to your library.
Example: D LThing [ISBN or Title] #tag1, #tag2, etc.
Add my wife’s novel, Every Visible Thing with the tag “wishlist”: D LThing 0066212898 #wishlist
Add Huckleberry Finn: D LThing Huckleberry Finn
Search always goes off Amazon for now. It picks the first edition if you don’t specify.
Coming soon: We’ll be integrating deeper soon, so you can let your Twitter friends know when you add or review books on LibraryThing.
Follow us: The LThing account will only be used to send out Twitter/LibraryThing messages. If you want to follow what I’m doing my Twitter account is LibraryThingTim.
Labels: new feature, new features, twitter
Great idea. Can anyone tell me how long it takes from tweet to the book appearing in your collection?
Usually 2 minutes, but I turned it off today because it was erroring. Mike and I are going to look at it very soon and fix it.
I misunderstood the point of this feature. I thought that we could post our LibraryThing additions to our Twitter accounts, not vice versa; personally, I have no need to add books to my LibraryThing collection via Twitter. Any plans to work on that feature?
This is what I was looking for, too. I prefer to enter my books directly in LT, so I can get all the information in one swoop. But I'd like to share what I've added!
It would be great if we could do something similar from email. Send an email to a specific address and have a book added…
when can we expect further integration? i'd really like my twitter updated when i add a new book to LT.