Quick Twitter to Cellular Tutorial
Submitted on July 15th, 2007 by admin
Filed under Social Networks
Twitter is a web service that allows you to post super short messages. People typically use it to update their social circle about what they are actively doing. By integrating this with your mobile phone, you can always know what your friends are doing and they can always keep up with you.
After setting up an account, go to http://twitter.com/devices and setup your cell phone. Once you setup your number, you need to validate by sending the provided code to twitter’s number 40404. Sending an SMS to 40404 will be the way you communicate with twitter with your cell phone for now on.
View your friends’ accounts on twitter and add them as friends. To them, you will be listed as a follower. You will receive any of their updates via SMS to your cell phone. If they wish to receive your updates, they will need to add you as a friend as well.
Two common commands are use in chatting on twitter through SMS.
The “at” symbol or @ publicly directs a message to somebody else on twitter. Its format is the following: @ name message
For example, I responded to one of qmchenry’s updates with a laugh: @qmchenry LOL. Such a post would be shown publicly on my twitter page.
The “d” command sends a private message to one of your friends. Its format is familiar: d name message.
For example, if I wanted to send a private message to my buddy, I would do the following: d qmchenry This is a private message.
If you are getting overwhelmed with twitter messages, you can turn them off by texting “off” to 40404. You can turn them back on by texting “on” as well. You can also turn off twitter updates automatically through the notifications area of twitter.
Several twitter bots are starting to be released. Once you add them as friends, you can direct message these bots to receive information. For example…
Stocks -
d stocks stocksymbol
For example d stocks aapl would respond with information on apple’s stocks
Forecast -
d forecast city, state or d forecast zipcode
For example, d forecast 27713 provides weather forecast for Durham, NC
I can be found on twitter here: http://twitter.com/davak/
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