Update your Netflix queue anywhere, anytime using Twitter

Problem: Do you often see movie trailers on YouTube or in a movie theater and wish you could update your Netflix queue with it instantly, before you forget the name of the movie? Or while conversing with friends you may hear of a good movie or read about one online and wish you could put that on your Netflix queue then and there? The common ways to do that today would be to make a note somewhere and then manually go to the Netflix site and update your queue.  But that’s so 2000!

Solution: After doing some searches I came across this super cool Twitter app that lets you tweet to add a movie to your Netflix queue. Its called AddNetflix.  Follow the instructions on that site to synch your Twitter and Netflix accounts one time and then all you have to do is send a direct message to addnetflix on Twitter with the name of the movie. For example, d addnetflix changeling #top will add the movie Changeling to the top of your Netflix queue.

Now let’s say you are at a movie theater watching a trailer, all you need to do is use SMS or a Twitter app to send a direct message to addnetflix with that movie name.

Say you are watching a trailer on YouTube, click on the Twitter link right below the video. It will open up your Twitter homepage and you can enter d addnetflix followed by the name of the movie and click the post button and that will do the same. Alternatively if you use browser plugins to tweet like Twitterbar, the process is simpler. You just enter d addnetflix <movie name> –post in your browser’s address bar and your Netflix queue will get updated. You could do the same with Tweetymail,  another very simple way to tweet.

Thanks to APIs and the wonderful developers who leverage these APIs to develop these apps, life becomes simpler