Commands
Messages
- @username + message: directs a twitter at another person, and causes your twitter to save in their "replies" tab. Aka "at replies" or "@replies".
- D username + message: sends a person a private message that goes to their device, and saves in their web archive.
Friends and Followers
- invite phone number: 415-555-1212 john sends a text invite to john
- accept: this command will accept a friend invitation. Example: Accept Jade. NOTE: when you accept, you must type in the name exactly as it was sent to you in order for Twitter to recognize it properly.
- deny: this command will deny a friend invitation.
- delete: for now, deleting friends must be done from the web.
- fav username: marks a person's last twitter as a favorite
- get username: gets this person's last update
- on or start or wake: enables twitter phone
updates
- on username: turns on notifications for a specific person on your device. For example, ON alissa.
- off or stop or sleep: disables twitter
phone updates
- off username:turns off notifications for a specific person on your device. For example, OFF blaine.
- follow all: turns on phone updates (entire friends list)
- follow username: you will get phone updates from this
person (requires initial approval)
- shortcut: F
- follow username: you will get phone updates from this
person (requires initial approval)
- leave all: turns off phone updates (entire friends list)
- leave username: disables phone updates from this
person
- shortcut: L
- leave username: disables phone updates from this
person
- nudge username: encourages this person to update
- whois username: text WHOIS BIZ to 40404 you will get the info Biz has filled out in his settings
Finding Out Stuff
- followers: find out who is following your updates (no longer supported)
- stats: find out how many people are following you, and how many friends you have
- help: sends back a list of twitter lingo commands
To update your own Twitter timeline, just text whatever is on your mind to the Twitter number: 40404, or use +447781488126 if you are outside the US.
Tracking
- track word: get notifications via SMS or IM when a word is mentioned. type again to turn off.
- untrack word: stops tracking a word
- untrack all: stops tracking all words
- track off: stops tracking all words
- tracks: returns a list of words you're tracking
hash tags
Hashtags (aka "#tags") allow tagging of Twitter posts. For example, post "I love #microformats a lot" to Twitter and the post is tagged "microformats".
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