Using iChat to interact with Twitter

I'm a Twitterholic and love using Twitterrific but Twitter has recently added tracking which outputs to SMS or IM only. Since Twitterrific doesn't support this new feature I've tried the Twitter IM bot on iChat. I've abandoned the Twitter IM bot before because of it's spotty and one way service. Now I'm wondering if maybe there's something wrong on my end.
Anyone else having problems interfacing with Twitter IM bot? When it works, I can change my status and send it commands but I have yet to receive a direct posting from it. Wondering what other people's results were.

I've chatted with the Twitter devs and they have admitted that AIM support is not really solid yet. It's on their list of features to fix, but for now they recommend that I use a Jabber account to communicate with the Twitter IM bot. I did this, using Gmail, and I can attest that there is a world of difference between bot support through Jabber versus AIM. Tracking works like a charm, as do notifications and direct tweets. If you don't want to run Twitterrific, or would rather just do it all through iChat and have less taxing your CPU, then set up Jabber in iChat using your Gmail address. I've been very pleased with the results. It's been rock solid as opposed to the spotty, buggy performance through AIM.
All the best
(TheLaughingImp on Twitter)

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