Twitter Launches Text-Based ‘Fast Follow’

Twitter on Wednesday introduced a “quick follow” option that will let people receive Twitter updates from specific users without making an account of their own.

If someone who is not on Twitter, for example, wanted to receive updates from my Twitter feed, they could send a text message to 40404 with [follow ChloeAlbanesius] in the body of the text message. Twitter will then text that person with my future tweets.

Twitter said the feature will make it simple for people to get quick updates from people or companies they hear about on-the-go.

“Try it out the next time you see a Twitter @username at a restaurant or store, on a billboard or on TV, or if you hear one mentioned on the radio,” Twitter’s Leland Rechis wrote in a blog post.

To appear on someone’s followers list, you’ll have to make an account.

Quick follow is currently only available in the U.S., but Twitter is working on bringing it to other countries, Rechis said.

Another way to sign up to receive tweets via text is to click the mobile phone icon at the top of a Twitter user’s page. Next to the “Follow” or “Following” button is a photo of a cell phone. Click it and you’ll get a text message every time they tweet.

If you just want someone’s most recent tweet, text [Get ChloeAlbanesius], and Twitter will send the latest update. To take a break from text-based tweets, text [off] to 40404 and [on] to turn them back on. That works with specific user names as well, by texting [on ChloeAlbanesius] or [off ChloeAlbanesius], for example.

In other Twitter news, Mashable reported that Twitter will soon launch an official “Tweet” button that Web site owners can embed in their Web sites. Clicking it will send that tale to your Twitter feed, and a counter will track how many times it has been tweeted.

Many sites already have a “retweet” button, which does the same thing, but that is produced by Tweetmeme; this would be directly from Twitter.

When questioned about the feature, a Twitter spokeswoman said to “stay tuned.”

WordPress Mobile App Teams on Twitter

Are you gripping the edge of your seat in anticipation of the upcoming WordPress mobile app releases? Do you have an insatiable desire to follow the development teams’ every go? Well, you’re in luck!

The WordPress mobile app teams will be sharing the latest news, status updates, beta team instructions, and random quips in 140 characters or less via Twitter. Follow the Android team, the BlackBerry team, the iOS team, all three, or maybe just two. Even if you don’t have a Twitter account, you can use Twitter’s new Quick Follow feature to have the latest news from the mobile app teams sent straight to your phone (standard text messaging rates apply).

How To Bookmark Twitter Links From Your Stream Using Paper

I’m sure you’ve already asked yourself this question: “What can I do with the hundreds, even thousands, of links to sites, videos, photos, my followed tweeps are sharing every day?” Too much content here, requiring too much time to go through… But, obviously, this content may be of interest. You are following these tweeps for good reasons, aren’t you?

So the big question is how could one easily browse this immense list and quickly discover, among this massive flow of data shared by my followed people, the articles, blogs, sites, videos, I want to spend time on? This is exactly what the new (free) tool Paper.li is about.

Paper.li transforms any twitter timeline into a daily online newspaper. It presents the content shared by the people you follow, in a smart and easy to scan way.

How does it work? This new tool analyzes all links shared by your friends during a given day, determines topics (politics, science, technology, etc.) using semantic text analysis tools, extracts the content (text, video, images, pdf) and rank them for probable pertinence. With all of that info the tool is then able to create a newspaper front page, enabling you to scan this content – contextualized by tweets, always displayed nearby articles – in a very way. If such quick scanning is not enough, you are also able to access a table view of all content shared in the last 24 hours by the tweeps you follow. Once created, this “newspaper” is automatically updated every 24 hours.

It is a very simple tool, a way to get what people you follow (and respect) are sharing, even if you are not connected to Twitter the entire day.

Create your account on Twitter

Anyone can send text on Twitter. As for now Twitter supports posting Tweets and accepts texts from many places around the world, as long as your mobile phone support internet and connected. Once your phone is verified, you can start sending updates instantly. You can update anywhere, anytime by simply sending us a text if you add your phone to Twitter. Depending on where you are, you may have a local number. You can send a text message to any of these numbers and it will post directly to your Twitter profile, and be sent to all of your followers. It’s incredible for us now to know what happen around us, discussing a trending topics even gossiping .What a fine technology.
To make an account on Twitter is simple and quick. You can sign up for a Twitter account from your computer, smart phones or your mobile phone, make sure your carrier must a web – enable. To set up your new Twitter account direct your device’s browser to mobile.twitter.com. Click “Sign up now” at the bottom of the page to get started. Enter the details of your account. Type in your real name, a user name, your e-mail address, and your password. When you’re done, click the “Make my account”. You’ve successfully made a Twitter account. Congratulations ! Now you can see your e-mail contacts are on Twitter. Start search and invite for friends.
Twitter sends a confirmation message to your e-mail and you need to confirm your e-mail. E-mail confirmation is an vital security check that helps prevent other people from signing up for a Twitter account using your email address. It should only take a few seconds. Confirm your email address, otherwise you won’t receive any email updates from Twitter .They will limited your access to certain other features on Twitter until you have confirmed. Now you can log in using either your email address or the username you made, and your password. Then you’ll be well on your way to mobile tweeting.

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