[Updated - Want a private beta invite code? Read on and see how]

So I was watching the roll out of Twitterfone the other day via Twhirl and tossed out a request for an invite to the private beta. Within moments, I received a direct message from @patphelan, one of the creators of Twitterfone, with an invite code, and my promise to write about the service.

What Twitterfone does is allow me to dial into a unique phone number and speak my tweets. This is extremely important to me as I tend to be on the road often, and will be great when I want to tweet out to my peeps about a event, a meeting or just a shout out where hands free is required (driving) or when the 140 character limit of Twitter isn’t reasonable to capture what I want to say.

After the prompt, I speak my tweet, hang up and in typically less than a minute my message appears in my Twitter stream with a TinyUrl that links back to the original message. This link is beneficial in many ways. I can see using this to capture an idea that i need to archive and share, which as a designer happens frequently. Sometimes I feel like Bill Blazejowski from Night Shift: “What if you mix the mayonnaise in the can, WITH the tunafish? Or… hold it! Chuck! I got it! Take LIVE tuna fish, and FEED ‘em mayonnaise! Oh this is great.” [speaks into tape recorder Twitterfone ] “Call Starkist!”

One of the coolest things to me about Twitterfone is that it is all tech driven, as pointed out by Socialized, a social media PR consultancy. The call into Twitterfone is handled by sophisticated AI that transcribes my message into text and posting to my Twitter account. Below is the another Tweet with Twitterfone. It properly transcribed Pomeranians, even knowing to capitalize it, yet choked on the word Guinness (which to me is sort of comical as he is from Cork, Ireland.)

This morning, I called in again to create a Tweet for this article, but was met with mixed results. It could be that a.) Madonna’s new record is on repeat in the studio here, or that b.) the service is still in private beta and the kinks are getting worked out. I would image that the folks at Twitterfone have been working night and day to tweak the intelligence. Just don’t forget what happens when the perfect AI is running the ship.

My call can be heard here, and what I was saying was “I heart Twitterfone and I would say that even if I was paid to.”

But these small items aside, I would say it has been a very successful launch for Twitterfone, and I intend to use it more often in my bag of social media tools and services as I can see the value, both today and in the future as Twitterfone continues to evolve. Congrats goes out to the whole team, who I understand built this application as a “side gig” while running other companies.

I am going to talk with Twitterfone today and see if we can’t wrangle up some hard to find and much sought after Twitterfone Beta invites.

[UPDATED: Shortly after posting, Pat from Twitterfone sent us a couple of invite codes to the private beta. We will pass the codes on to whom ever posts the most insightful comments on any blog posting here at Relevantly Speaking. We will monitor the comments throughout the day, and Scott and I will choose at close of business today (well, since its Friday, we will review it over a happy hour beer or two. Good luck, and we look forward to reading your comments.]