PandaPassport.com – China Blog

Some of you may remember my post from January 08 about how you could send text messages from your phone to Fanfou.com and then feed them to Twitter. Well now that Fanfou is no more, that’s obviously not going to work. But thanks to John Pasden over on Sinosplice there’s an ever better option:

With that option [Fanfou] closed to me, I decided to check out the other big Chinese microblogging service I was familiar with, Zuosa (??). I really liked Zuosa, where I found a lot of advanced features that even Twitter has held back on. Then I went into settings, where I saw the familiar Twitter “t” next to the ?????? (”Sync to microblogs”) section.

When I clicked on that section, and then on the Twitter “t,” I got this message:
??????????????? zuosa->buboo.tw->twitter ?????

Translation:
We’re sorry, this service is not available. You can go through zuosa -> buboo.tw -> twitter to accomplish the sync!

So I set up an account on Buboo.tw (ah, traditional characters!), easily synced that with Twitter, then synced my Zuosa account with Buboo. And hey… it works.

Very very cool. Awesome workaround John. Incidentally, Sinosplice is one of the first China blogs that I ever discovered and it’s never any surprise to see a gem like this. Go check it out if you haven’t already.