You know I am having a good day when I can get two of my favorite services talking to one another.  Another reason why I picked Twhirl as my Twitter client of choice is because of it’s easy integration into another awesome service I love to use, Ping.fm.

So how do you get the two to talking to each other? First, you need to open up Twhirl and wrench icon, which will open up the configuration menu.

Now, you will need to go down to where it says, “Post status updates to other services”.  Click on the checkmark box next to Ping.fm.

Click the key icon next to the empty text box to go get your API key from Ping.fm.  Copy it from the Ping.fm web site, paste it into the empty text box and then hit the “Save” button.

Each time you update via Twhirl, your updates should also to to Ping.fm which can in turn update Plurk, LinkedIn, Tumblr, FriendFeed and more.  Now when your all done, you can come follow me @mitchkeeler.