After the spread firefox pleadge that i took this morning,i am feeling guilty to death. Me, being an Opera user, by heart, i want to apologize the ever growing opera community.

thats it.

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IndiaTwits - The IRC Hangout Place For Indian Twitterers.

If you want to join in #IndiaTwits from your browser itself follow the following steps.

Firefox users :

1) Download & install Firefox, if you wouldn’t have done so.

2) Install ChatZilla extension in firefox.for this go here ; click Install now and restart Firefox to complete installation.

3) Go to Tools>Chatzilla. a new window should open.

4)Select Freenode from Available networks.

5)Now you should get some text appearing on your screen.

6)now type “/join #IndiaTwits”

7)Done.

Opera Users:

1) Download & install opera if you haven’t done so.

2) Enter irc://irc.freenode.net in you address bar, a new wizard will greet you

2) Enter your Name & e-mail address and click next

3) Now enter your nick name(nick name = user id on IRC). you could choose any, but i advise you to choose you twitter handle

4) Nothing to do here, just click on FINISH

5) now you are connect to freenode server, now you need to join #IndiaTwits chatroom

type ‘IndiaTwits’ and select it & click join

6) done!

If you dont want to follow these simple procedures, head on to IndiaTwits to know other ways to login to #IndiaTwits. Use the same site to know more about #IndiaTwits and its history.

Topics discussed so far in my presence

• Privacy issues in social networking sites.

• Being an IRC virgin is not a bad thing

Hoping to discuss more such topics. Preferably use the same handle as you use on twitter.

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