Editor’s note: This article was first published in November 2010, reporting SMS alerts for @mentions and the iPhone app of the time. Twitter has since become X and its SMS features have changed.
Twitter has added a new service to its growing list of features: @mentions on your mobile phone. It doesn’t matter whether you’re logged in to Twitter from your phone at the time. Now, if an account you follow mentions you, you’ll get a text message on your phone with that person’s message, and you can reply if you want to.
This new service is available for the latest version of Twitter for iPhone, which you can download from Apple’s App Store. The feature will also be coming to Android soon.
If you want to turn on SMS notifications, just go to Twitter’s devices settings page (twitter.com/devices) and set up the option, which you can turn off or edit at any time.
The advantages of this option are clear: you can take Twitter with you wherever you are and stay in touch with your followers, with the people you follow, or with anyone you’re waiting to hear back from about something you asked.
With this new feature, Twitter shows it means business and intends to put up a real fight in the social networking space.
Further reading
- How to upload and watch videos on Twitter
- Social networks focused on professionals and specific markets
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