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Ever wish that you could send quick, private messages and updates to a group of people in your twitter contacts. However, since these messages may contain confidential information, you may not want those messages to be published to their public Twitter timelines or to any followers who are not part of the team. There is where you need to use GroupTweet. It allows you to send private Twitter messages to specific groups of friends.

GroupTweet is constantly listening for direct texts sent to your group’s Twitter account. When a direct text is received, GroupTweet instantly publishes it as a tweet from the group account. GroupTweet piggy-backs on the Twitter service via the Twitter API. Setting up a private Twitter group is simple:

1. Create a Twitter account for you group (e.g. initechwebdevs or smithfamily) and make sure that updates are protected in the settings for this account.
2. Register your group’s Twitter account at GroupTweet.com
3. Tell all group members to follow the group account you created at Twitter. (Since updates are protected, you will need to approve each follow request)
4. To send a message to all the group members, just direct text your group’s Twitter account. For example: ‘D initechwebdevs Just committed the latest code to the repository’