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Every so often I’ll post a Chirbit Idea on Twitter. Here is a collection of the 13 I’ve posted so far. If you have a cool Chirbit Idea send it in! or share it on twitter with the #chirbit hashtag.

1. Tell a joke like @smouty66 http://chirb.it/a0nFzD
2. You can record a chribit straight from your browser using a mic or a webcam for up to 2 minutes
3. Audacity is your friend – http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ – free open source recording and editing app
4. Post your favorite movie quote and share it! http://chirb.it/t0y8OO – We are the music makers, the dreamers of the dreams
5. Take some weight off of your shoulders. Apologize to someone http://chirb.it/3qG5mO
6. Read a poem to someone – http://chirb.it/JGxpqk – T. S. Eliot’s – The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
7. How do you pronounce that? If you know another language or a hard to pronounce word. Share it. http://chirb.it/sHD7ND
8. Click the little gear icon to access additional tools. Edit, reply to, delete a chirbit or get a short URL.
9. Show off your awesome voice like Bryan Cox @coxtox http://chirb.it/5CMeNA
10. You can search for chirbits by keyword, description and category then share them easily on twitter with our short URLs
11. To see how others are sharing audio on twitter with chirbit search twitter with keyword ‘chirb.it‘ (our short URL)
12. What is your favorite quote or saying? Record it and share it.
13. If you want to use a high quality USB mic with chirbit, right click on the recorder to change your input device.

Chirbit is an easy and fun way to share audio on any social network, but for this post I am going to focus specifically on Twitter. Follow these easy steps and you will be sharing audio on Twitter like a pro!

Part 1 – How to share your Chirbit audio on Twitter

1. Sign up for a Chirbit account. All you need is a username, a valid email address and your password. You can sign up to chirbit here.
2. Post your audio. This can be accomplished in a number of different ways with Chirbit.
   • You can record your message straight from the browser using the Chirbit recorder, and your microphone or webcam.

   

   • You can upload an mp3, wav or m4a file using the upload form.

   

   • You can record your audio using your iphone voice memo app and submit it from your iphone ( This is the perfect way to post your audio on the go )

   

3. Click on the Option button on your Chirbit post.



4. Click the Tweet This Chirbit button. The “Tweet This” button will post your short URL and the Title you gave your Chirbit on your Twitter account. Currently you must be logged in to Twitter and you must click the update button manually for this to function. In the near future you will be able to choose to do this automatically for all of your posts via the settings area.

The short Chirbit URL look like this http://chirb.it/****** (the chirb.it domain followed by 6 alphanumeric characters) and will appear this way to you viewers:

On an iphone your chirbit will look like this:

Part 2 – How others are using Chirbit to share audio on Twitter

Check out how others are using Chirbit with Twitter by searching twitter with the term “chirb.it”

Some examples of Chirbit posts

• Poetry Nystagmus by Lloyd Fletcher
• Short Snippets from a longer Podcast Jeff Thinks He Has the Bird Flu… Riiight
• Your favorite Movie Quote The Snozzberries taste like Snozzberries!
• Audio Tweets Crazy golf
• Share music you’ve made Melancholie
• Sound Bites Charlie ringtone
• Pronunciations How do you pronounce Che?