Twitter and JAJAH are collaborating on a service to let users make free phone calls with a Tweet. JAJAH Brings Telephone Calls to Twitter starting on 9/18/2009 with beta testing.

They are called @calls and the calls are made without revealing your number or having to know the number of the person you want to call. How? You just send a Tweet to @call @username, with the username being the Twitter name of the person you want to call. If that person follows you on Twitter and has a JAJAH account, a free two-minute call will be initiated. This works on your computer or mobile device (BlackBerry, iPhone, Android), and on Twitter.com or on a Twitter-client.

The question I have, how smart is a serviced based on a 2 minute call. The same questions were asked about the limited characters available in micro-blogs and tweets. I am not a huge phone user, so I am not the best judge of this, but it seems like people will want to talk more, get frustrated if they are constantly disconnected calls that are going well, or feel rushed with the timer running. It would be a good thing if you want to introduce yourself to someone live. Just put in their username and if they have JAJAH and accept your call you got a chance to do your introduction script. Yes, scripts. I see it now people spamming @call trying to drum up business. This provides the best of email and Twitter spam with telemarketing. Let’s hope they have controls to help limit this. I guess if you use this service you will have to be more selective about who you follow and not focus on getting a big following.

Anyway, I know I’m still basically talking to myself up here in the blogosphere, but if you are reading this give me some feedback. Tell me what you think about this service. Will you try it, are you scared it will be another spam farm, or can you see benefits in 2 minute calls.

To keep up to date with the JAJAH@call beta, follow @call on Twitter.

You can visit JAJAH at www.jajah.com and Twitter at www.twitter.com.

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