ear-fung.us I’m a programmer. I’m also pro-grammar.

Introducing TweetWeight.com

I'm well on the way to my goal weight of 185 lbs and I had an idea to use Twitter to keep tack of my weight loss goals.

Accountability is really what it's all about. I've got friends and coworkers that follow me on twitter and if they know how much weight I've lost (or gained) recently, it's more incentive to do better with eating habits and exercise.

So I built TweetWeight.com. All you have to do to use it is send a tweet to @tweetweight with your current weight. You can also add comments after your weight. Anything you want up to Twitter's character limit. TweetWeight even supports decimals in your weight.

TweetWeight.com will send feedback to you and let you know how much you've gained or lost since the last time you told it your weight, and will also help you keep track of your goal weight and goal date.

The site will log your current weight and each time you tell @tweetweight your new weight, you can see your progress in an interactive graph. Just go to http://tweetweight.com/your_user_name. Here's mine. You can see your complete history of tweets and responses from the site.

You can set goals by tweeting something like "@tweetweight goal 185" and "@tweetweight goaldate 7/31/2009". These are then stored and used in your feedback to calculate how much weight you've got to loose and to eventually congratulate you on reaching it.

So that's my new Twitter service. I hope you like it and start using it if you want to track your weight loss and be accountable to your friends. Let me know what I can do to improve the service!