May 03 2008

How to Set Up Twitter SMS

Jianjun
Published by Jianjun at 8:43 pm under Web 2.0, twitter

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Twitter is a popular social communication or microblogging platform where people update their current status using less than 140 characters.

Most users use a Twitter client such as Twhirl or Twitter web interface to send and receive ‘tweets’. But Twitter also offers an SMS service, which works just as your usual mobile SMS. You won’t be charged a dime unless you send them out. You may choose to receive a particular person’s updates or only Direct Messages (DM). You can also set it to ‘Sleep’ during certain hours. Local Twitter SMS numbers:

USA 40404
Canada 21212
India 5566511

International users may enable their mobile device via Twitter’s UK number: +447624801423.

Visit http://twitter.com/devices (after you logged in) to enable your phone to receive/send SMS messages from/to Twitter.

To receive a particular person’s tweets, go to that person’s profile page and choose so.

Happy tweeting!

*Update*

Twitter has stopped sending SMS messages to my mobile in China since a few days ago.

*Update-1*

Twitter recently experienced quite some technical glitches. But the good news is SMS service is back. Now you should be able to enjoy it for free again.


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    • 6 Responses to “How to Set Up Twitter SMS”

    1. # Randyon 04 May 2008 at 1:46 am

      I think twitter is flash & easy to used now day, but it still got challenge ahead. So many plug-in has to fit for users. New rivals ready to do something. You know what I’m talking about. As sub user I’ll keep watching. Doing my blogging.

      [Reply]

      Jianjun reply on May 4th, 2008 9:09 am:

      I see Twitter’s spammer population is going up. :D Let’s see how they will deal with this. Also some users observed Twitter does NOT enforce its TOS at all. I have a feeling that Twitter lacks hands to monitor account activities and tweets.

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    2. # Kelvin Katoon 04 Jul 2008 at 4:37 pm

      I’m using a prepaid China Mobile card and I’ve been trying to register my phone with twitter, but I get an alert that says, “unable to send” when I try to text +447624801423. Any advice for me? Thanks!

      [Reply]

      Jianjun reply on July 4th, 2008 4:45 pm:

      Kelvin

      You have to make sure the card has enabled international SMS function. It seems some of the prepaid cards can’t send international SMS.

      Another way is to register the mobile number with Skype and then use Skype to send the SMS to the Twitter phone number.

      Hope it works for you. :)

      [Reply]
    3. # tomon 08 Jul 2008 at 6:08 pm

      Hi Jianjun,

      I tried to add my device to send and receive the twitter updates. Once i added my mobile nos ! i got the following from twitter,

      “Verify your number (+91xxxxxxxxx) by sending the following code to 5566511:”

      then how to send twitter activities through sms.

      thanks in advance !

      [Reply]

      Jianjun reply on July 10th, 2008 4:18 pm:

      Oops. That’s something I’d like Twitter to pay me for. ;)

      [Reply]

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