How to Receive a Twitter SMS
Twitter is a social networking site that helps keep users connected by allowing them to send and receive "tweets." These short, 140-character tweets are displayed on the user's profile page, and those who are following that user can see them as well. You can also receive tweets from people via SMS messaging. When you sign up for Twitter mobile, you can choose to follow other users, and you will receive text messages on your cell phone whenever they update their tweets.
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Instructions
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Connect to your cell phone's Internet browser and visit mobile.twitter.com.
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Scroll to the bottom of the page and select the "Sign up now" button.
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Enter your real name, username, email address and password in the proper fields and select "Create my account now."
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Send a text message with the word "START" to your country's Twitter code. If you are in the United States, the code is 40404 (see Resources for link to other country codes).
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Text in your username when prompted--do not add any additional characters. After Twitter receives the text with your username, it will prompt you to reply with your password, and you will be asked to text in "OK" to use Twitter on your cell phone.
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Log in to the email account that you entered when setting up your Twitter mobile account and open the message from Twitter. Follow the instructions in the message to confirm your email account.
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Send either "FOLLOW username" or "ON username" to your country's Twitter code, which is 40404 in the United States. Replace "username" with the username of the person for whom you want to receive SMS updates. For example, if you want to follow JaneDoe, text in "FOLLOW JaneDoe" or "ON JaneDoe."
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Tips & Warnings
Send a text message with the words "OFF username" or "LEAVE username" to your country's Twitter code to stop receiving SMS updates from that person.
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