Track packages with Twitter? Yes please

I love how people keep coming up with ways to use Twitter’s API to build really cool services based on the integration between the web and SMS.

Case in point: today I discovered that TrackThis lets people track their shipments via direct message on Twitter. The process is simple. You follow TrackThis (and they follow you back), then you send them a direct message with your tracking number and the name you want attached to it.

So it looks like this:

d trackthis 8269038620386 my sweet new computer

And then TrackThis sends you a direct message every time your package changes location. Sweet.

Of course, I am also fundamentally a lazy person, which is probably why this particular idea appeals to me. I found out about it here.

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