How to stream live video to twitter or your blog with a cell phone.

A while ago I heard about a great FREE tool for the Nokia S60 series phones (E90, N95, E71, E51 etc.) that allows you to stream (or post) live from your cell phone to the web. Yesterday I discovered how to stream that video via Twitter or Blogger.

Here's a video that will explain most of the steps that you can follow to stream video to your blog or notify people via twitter (and if you have the twitter plugin installed on facebook, it will also update your status on facebook to notify your facebook friends):

If you're on a narrow pipe, or accessing this site from an iPhone or a browser that does not have flash installed then these are the steps:

1. Make sure you have a phone that supports QIK (I use a Nokia E90, but any Symbian S60 phone will work, such as a Nokia E51, E71, and even some Sony Ericsson phones).
2. Go to www.qik.com and sign in for a qik account.
3. Download and install QIK on your cell phone.
4. In the user profile add a Network for twitter (put in your username and password for twitter).
5. On your phone start QIK, once you are streaming, simply press 55 and it will upload a link to twitter (and facebook if you have the twitter app update your facebook status).

Just a quick word of caution - uploading video from your cell phone can be expensive! It uses more than 1MB per minute of video, so make sure you have a data plan loaded, and DON'T use QIK while you're roaming!

I hope that helps! Let me know if you start using QIK, I would love to follow your QIK stream (Gus, Steve Lottering, Stephen Benvenutti, Paul Steyn and ALL the other Nokia users out there!)