These are some Frequently Asked Questions about this service, with some answers.
What is TYPO3 BEAT?
TYPO3 BEAT is a micro-blogging service. You can use it to write short notices about yourself and what you are doing for TYPO3. Those notices will be sent to all your friends and fans.
How is TYPO3 BEAT different from Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, Plurk, others?
TYPO3 BEAT is an Open Network Service. Our main goal is to provide a fair and transparent service that preserves users' autonomy. In particular, all the software used for TYPO3 BEAT is Free Software, and all the data is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, making it Open Data.
The software also implements the OpenMicroBlogging protocol, meaning that you can have friends on other microblogging services that can receive your notices.
The goal here is autonomy -- you deserve the right to manage your own on-line presence. If you don't like how TYPO3 BEAT works, you can take your data and the source code and set up your own server (or move your account to another one).
Connection Settings
You can use the Jabber-Interface by setting your jabber-id at http://beat.typo3.org/settings/im while your logged in in the web frontend. Then you can just add t3status@jabber.ccc.de to your buddy list.