Hellotxt, the service that lets you simultaneously update your status and read your friends’ status across many services, has now released an API. There is a long list of microblogging and social networking sites that Hellotxt interacts with, ranging from Facebook and LinkedIn to of course Twitter and FriendFeed (see their home page below).

Given how many online users today have an account on at least several of these services, the ability to update your status on all of them simultaneously can be a real time-saver (and note that it does not blast all these services at once, the [...]