What is JabberStatus?

JabberStatus is a way of updating your Facebook or Twitter status from your Jabber (or Google Talk) account. Using it is simple! Just add facebook@jabber.org or twitterstatus@jabber.org to your contact list, and it will talk you through the rest.

WARNING: This code is still being tested. While it works for most cases, if things go wrong, it can get a little confused, although nothing bad can happen. If this happens, just remove it from your contact list and re-add it.

Privacy

For Facebook, we never see your username or password, but we do have an authentication key which lets us set your status. Unfortunately, for Twitter, the only way we can provide this service is if you give us your username and password. We store an encrypted version, so it shouldn't be leaked in any way. We don't know any other information about you apart from your Jabber ID. Obviously, we won't give any of this information to anyone else. If you remove us from your contact list, we throw all your information away.

If you are concerned about us storing this information, then you can grab the code and run your own version, as far away from us as you like. See the "developers" section below for more information.

Developers

JabberStatus is open source under the MIT license, and written in Ruby. The code is available from GitHub.

Credits

JabberStatus was written by James Smith.