Kiwis can soon use Twitter via SMS

12 May 2009 · 2 comments

Kiwis will soon be able to send and receive tweets via SMS.

 

From the press release: Get Tweeting With Vodafone – Vodafone Forum —

Vodafone customers will be able to receive TXT messages from people they choose to follow via TXT on Twitter and send messages to a short code (TWTR/8987) for their ‘tweets’, @replies, or to follow someone on the go.

Best of all, regular TXT charges will apply to customers sending tweets via TXT and all TXT message updates sent from Twitter will be free of charge.

I just hope I can select to receive tweets from only certain accounts, such as my partner. The thought of 100 tweets per hour from all those I follow is a bit daunting. In fact, I wouldn’t do it.

No actual date yet for this: The service will launch in the coming weeks.

Tagged as: sms, tweets, Twitter, txt

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Mike Riversdale 12 May 2009 at 12:10 49

Here’s a few Twitter help pages that your reades might find useful around using SMS/txt

Adding your phone number to Twitter: http://help.twitter.com/forums/10711/entries/14589
(note NZ numbers not released yet)

The Official Twitter Text Commands: http://help.twitter.com/forums/10711/entries/14020
Includes ON, OFF and ON userame, OFF username

Hope that helps

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Miraz Jordan 12 May 2009 at 12:22 10

Thanks Mike. I appreciate the links through to the relevant Help topics. That should make it easier once we can actually use the SMS service. :-)

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