I have been working on something recently to make my Twitter life a lot easier.

I don’t have an iPhone and I’m not planning one getting on in the near future, so I send sms messages to Twitter to update my status. Simple enough when you have one Twitter account. You just add your device ( phone ) to Twitter, tell it when to send you sms messages, and what to send you and off you go.

Sadly you can only apply a device to one Twitter account and can only send updated to one account from your device via sms.

Until now!

I sat down one evening with a lovely cup of tea and had a good think. The twitter api allows access to account updates, @replies and direct messages so their must be a way to allow the update of many accounts from one device.

What I came up with is called bucket. You can add as multiple Twitter accounts to bucket and then can update them by sending sms to your bucket account.

You bucket account is just another Twitter account with no followers and set to private, so if ( like me ) you are on Vodafone in the UK, it is still completely free just the price of a text ( or part of your monthly allowance ).

Additionally you can ask bucket to collect any @replies sent to your registered accounts and send them to you ( using your bucket accounts direct message ) using sms.

So you can send to multiple accounts, can receive @replies from multiple accounts and can use the standard Twitter sms methods to get any updates you want from your friends accounts.

Facebook status support should be added soon, and then from there the sky is the limit.

Bucket is currently very young and needs some testing, so if you would like an account, add a comment to this post which includes your Twitter account, and I’ll send an invite to you via direct message on Twitter.

Update: You can now signup and help in testing. http://bucket.harrybailey.com