Ever wanted to forward IM messages to your mobile when your not around? No....oh...well um go away.

I used python to write an application that gets your inbound messages (in pidgin) when your away and updates a twitter account. You need two twitter accounts one for updating and one to listen to the account getting updated. I suggest you make the former private so I don't follow your chats.

If you run linux you probably have everything required already but just to be sure, to make this work you need:
python
pidgin (with dbus enabled check the about dialog help>about)
dbus (might work with the windows version but haven't tested)

This is released under the GPL.

Note: No longer works in the UK due to twitter discontinuing free sms's, I think it'd still work in USA, Canada and India though. Ah well.

Download PidginTwitter