2008-11-17T13:58:32-08:00 device nieves phone phone_number settings text 59008 107550 14589 false true false true 15727 4 1 2010-01-04T16:11:06-08:00 crystal 17868 Adding your phone number to Twitter 2010-01-04T16:11:06-08:00 <h3><span style="font-size: 19px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; color: #333333;"> <div id="post-body-15727" class="user_formatted" style="color: #333333; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"> <h1 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: #555555; clear: left; font-size: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 5px; float: none; padding: 0px;">Add your phone from...your phone!</h1> <p style="color: #333333; clear: left; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px;">Did you know: you can send tweets by text? Adding your phone to Twitter makes it easy to tweet from places where even wifi and mobile web don't work!&nbsp; Send a text with the word <strong>START</strong> -- it's easy-- we'll reply and ask you to sign up if you're new, or reply with your user name if you have an account.</p> <p style="color: #333333; clear: left; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px;"><img src="http://help.twitter.com/attachments/token/bwzfmcymdoenmaf/?name=_JPEG_Image__320x480_pixels_.jpg" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" border="0" alt="_JPEG_Image__320x480_pixels_.jpg" />&nbsp;</p> <p style="color: #333333; clear: left; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px;">If you have an account, just reply with your user name. We'll ask you to verify your password, and if it's correct, we'll post your first tweet and let you know!&nbsp; (If you don't get a confirmation text right away, just check your profile page to see if your tweet showed up.)</p> <p style="color: #333333; clear: left; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px;"><img src="http://help.twitter.com/attachments/token/3j6z95w0gu88ozv/?name=crystal__crystal__on_Twitter.jpg" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" border="0" alt="crystal__crystal__on_Twitter.jpg" /></p> <p style="color: #333333; clear: left; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="color: #333333; clear: left; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px;">If you don't have an account, just reply with SIGN UP.&nbsp; We'll ask you to choose a user name, and once we receive it, we'll ask for your first tweet!</p> <p style="color: #333333; clear: left; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px;"><img src="http://help.twitter.com/attachments/token/q8hddzda2hmzw24/?name=Picture_4.jpg" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" border="0" alt="Picture_4.jpg" /></p> <p style="color: #333333; clear: left; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px;">When you send your tweet, we'll post it to your profile, which you can claim anytime by entering your phone number on Twitter.com, here.</p> <p style="color: #333333; clear: left; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px;"><img src="http://help.twitter.com/attachments/token/u3ej60loxtqwbji/?name=Tw33tastic__Tw33tastic__on_Twitter.jpg" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" border="0" alt="Tw33tastic__Tw33tastic__on_Twitter.jpg" /></p> <p style="color: #333333; clear: left; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px;">Get started by sending a (text!) tweet to any of these Twitter numbers:</p> <ul> <li>US: 40404<br />Australia: 0198089488 (Telstra customers)<br />Canada: 21212<br />UK: 86444 (Vodafone, Orange, 3 and O2 customers)<br />India: 53000 (Bharti Airtel customers)<br />Indonesia: 89887 (AXIS and 3 customers)<br />Ireland: 51210 (O2 customers)<br />New Zealand: 8987 (Vodafone and Telecom NZ customers)</li> <li><em>1-way long codes:</em><br />Germany: +49 17 6888 50505<br />Sweden: +46 737 494222<br />All other countries: +44 762 4801423</li> </ul> <p style="color: #333333; clear: left; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px;"><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Note</strong>: these numbers are for text only; you cannot call them. Folks using international numbers: once your phone is verified, you'll be able to send but not receive updates from Twitter.&nbsp; Find out more on the&nbsp;<a href="http://blog.twitter.com/2008/08/some-sms-perspective.html">Twitter Blog</a>.&nbsp;</p> <p style="color: #333333; clear: left; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px;"><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">For UK residents</strong>:&nbsp; some carriers don't charge an international fee to send messages to the Twitter number within the UK, but other carriers do.&nbsp; T-Mobile, for example, considers +44 762 4801423 an international number and charge rates varying from .15 to .25 or more per message, even if you are using a carrier within the UK.&nbsp; Remember to check your phone plan for international rates; be aware that even in the UK, standard messaging rates vary by carrier, and do apply.&nbsp; If you're having trouble adding your phone number, check out our<a href="http://twitter.zendesk.com/forums/10713/entries/15350">&nbsp;phone troubleshooting</a>&nbsp;page.</p> <p style="color: #333333; clear: left; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px;">&nbsp;</p> <h1 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: #555555; clear: left; font-size: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 5px; float: none; padding: 0px;">Turning on text tweets for people you follow</h1> <p style="color: #333333; clear: left; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px;">To get tweets from others, visit the profile pages of people you follow, or your following page, and look for the mobile icon. Hover over it to see if mobile tweets are on; click the icon to turn them off or on.</p> <p style="color: #333333; clear: left; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px;"><img src="http://help.twitter.com/attachments/token/bzggdp8z6inucyl/?name=Preview.jpg" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" border="0" alt="Preview.jpg" /></p> <p style="color: #333333; clear: left; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px;">But that's not all: you can also send ON+username to Twitter, like so:</p> <p style="color: #333333; clear: left; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px;"><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">ON tw33tastic</strong></p> <p style="color: #333333; clear: left; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px;">if you want to turn on tweets by text command.&nbsp; Check out these other&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.zendesk.com/forums/10711/entries/14020">phone commands</a>&nbsp;for more tips and tricks!</p> <p style="color: #333333; clear: left; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="color: #333333; clear: left; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px;">&nbsp;</p> <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><br /></span></div> </div> </span></h3> <h3><span style="font-size: 19px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; color: #333333;"> <div class="user_formatted" id="post-body-15727" style="color: #333333; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"> <h1 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: #555555; clear: left; font-size: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 5px; float: none; padding: 0px;">Add your phone from...your phone!</h1> <p style="color: #333333; clear: left; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px;">Did you know: you can send tweets by text? Adding your phone to Twitter makes it easy to tweet from places where even wifi and mobile web don't work!&nbsp; Send a text with the word <strong>START</strong> -- it's easy-- we'll reply and ask you to sign up if you're new, or reply with your user name if you have an account.</p> <p style="color: #333333; clear: left; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px;"><img src="http://help.twitter.com/attachments/token/bwzfmcymdoenmaf/?name=_JPEG_Image__320x480_pixels_.jpg" border="0" alt="_JPEG_Image__320x480_pixels_.jpg" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" />&nbsp;</p> <p style="color: #333333; clear: left; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px;">If you have an account, just reply with your user name. We'll ask you to verify your password, and if it's correct, we'll post your first tweet and let you know!&nbsp; (If you don't get a confirmation text right away, just check your profile page to see if your tweet showed up.)</p> <p style="color: #333333; clear: left; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px;"><img src="http://help.twitter.com/attachments/token/3j6z95w0gu88ozv/?name=crystal__crystal__on_Twitter.jpg" border="0" alt="crystal__crystal__on_Twitter.jpg" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" /></p> <p style="color: #333333; clear: left; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="color: #333333; clear: left; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px;">If you don't have an account, just reply with SIGN UP.&nbsp; We'll ask you to choose a user name, and once we receive it, we'll ask for your first tweet!</p> <p style="color: #333333; clear: left; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px;"><img src="http://help.twitter.com/attachments/token/q8hddzda2hmzw24/?name=Picture_4.jpg" border="0" alt="Picture_4.jpg" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" /></p> <p style="color: #333333; clear: left; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px;">When you send your tweet, we'll post it to your profile, which you can claim anytime by entering your phone number on Twitter.com, here.</p> <p style="color: #333333; clear: left; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px;"><img src="http://help.twitter.com/attachments/token/u3ej60loxtqwbji/?name=Tw33tastic__Tw33tastic__on_Twitter.jpg" border="0" alt="Tw33tastic__Tw33tastic__on_Twitter.jpg" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" /></p> <p style="color: #333333; clear: left; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px;">Get started by sending a (text!) tweet to any of these Twitter numbers:</p> <ul> <li>US: 40404<br />Australia: 0198089488 (Telstra customers)<br />Canada: 21212<br />UK: 86444 (Vodafone, Orange, 3 and O2 customers)<br />India: 53000 (Bharti Airtel customers)<br />Indonesia: 89887 (AXIS and 3 customers)<br />Ireland: 51210 (O2 customers)<br />New Zealand: 8987 (Vodafone and Telecom NZ customers)</li> <li><em>1-way long codes:</em><br />Germany: +49 17 6888 50505<br />Sweden: +46 737 494222<br />All other countries: +44 762 4801423</li> </ul> <p style="color: #333333; clear: left; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px;"><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Note</strong>: these numbers are for text only; you cannot call them. Folks using international numbers: once your phone is verified, you'll be able to send but not receive updates from Twitter.&nbsp; Find out more on the&nbsp;<a href="http://blog.twitter.com/2008/08/some-sms-perspective.html">Twitter Blog</a>.&nbsp;</p> <p style="color: #333333; clear: left; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px;"><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">For UK residents</strong>:&nbsp; some carriers don't charge an international fee to send messages to the Twitter number within the UK, but other carriers do.&nbsp; T-Mobile, for example, considers +44 762 4801423 an international number and charge rates varying from .15 to .25 or more per message, even if you are using a carrier within the UK.&nbsp; Remember to check your phone plan for international rates; be aware that even in the UK, standard messaging rates vary by carrier, and do apply.&nbsp; If you're having trouble adding your phone number, check out our<a href="http://twitter.zendesk.com/forums/10713/entries/15350">&nbsp;phone troubleshooting</a>&nbsp;page.</p> <p style="color: #333333; clear: left; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px;">&nbsp;</p> <h1 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: #555555; clear: left; font-size: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 5px; float: none; padding: 0px;">Turning on text tweets for people you follow</h1> <p style="color: #333333; clear: left; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px;">To get tweets from others, visit the profile pages of people you follow, or your following page, and look for the mobile icon. Hover over it to see if mobile tweets are on; click the icon to turn them off or on.</p> <p style="color: #333333; clear: left; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px;"><img src="http://help.twitter.com/attachments/token/bzggdp8z6inucyl/?name=Preview.jpg" border="0" alt="Preview.jpg" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" /></p> <p style="color: #333333; clear: left; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px;">But that's not all: you can also send ON+username to Twitter, like so:</p> <p style="color: #333333; clear: left; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px;"><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">ON tw33tastic</strong></p> <p style="color: #333333; clear: left; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px;">if you want to turn on tweets by text command.&nbsp; Check out these other&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.zendesk.com/forums/10711/entries/14020">phone commands</a>&nbsp;for more tips and tricks!</p> <p style="color: #333333; clear: left; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="color: #333333; clear: left; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px;">&nbsp;</p> <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><br /></span></div> </div> </span></h3> 2008-11-17T13:58:32-08:00 14589 59008 15727 2010-01-04T16:11:06-08:00 17868