On the last part I described about setting up your twitter account and how to customize it. On this part I’m going to write how to use twitter on the go, using mobile devices. You can take twitter with you when ever you go. You can use this service with your mobile, iphone, PDA, PSP or any other handheld devices. This is a great way to share what you are doing in the real time.
Using twitter with text messages
You can use twitter to update your status even if your handset doesn’t have internet access.
You can use the SMS feature to use twitter. But before that, you have to setup your mobile with your twitter account. Go to your dashboard and then Settings > Devices or twitter.com/devices. Now type in your mobile number with your country code, like this: +880xxxxxxxxx;
+880 is the country code and the following is my phone number. Check, “It’s okay for Twitter to send txt messages to my phone. Standard rates apply.” When you’ll click “save” then you’ll have to send the green code shown on the next screen to twitter number.
After you sent the code to twitter, you should get a confirmation SMS, that this number is being attached with your account.
Just send a message to the twitter number and you’re status will be updated!
Mobile web
You can use twitter with your mobile by visiting m.twitter.com. Just login and experience the same site in mobile view. It’s one of the easiest ways to use twitter in your mobile phone. It’s simple and light. You can see the updates of your friends and can search for people and browse profiles.
Twitter for iPhone
You can experience a great twitter site from your iphone by browsing twitterforiphone.com. This is a twitter site specially designed and optimized for iphone users. The interface is clean, stylish and you can do the same things what you can do on the main site.
TwitterBerry for BlackBerry phones
TwitterBerry is an application for BlackBerry phones. Most of the latest models support this app and it’s highly integrated for BlackBerry phones.
Hardware requirements:
- BlackBerry OS 4.1.0+ (BlackBerry OS 4.2+ for TwitPic support)
- BlackBerry Internet Browsing Service (BIS-B or BIBS) OR a BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) OR a direct TCP data connection
Twitroid for Android phones
Twitroid is a twitter client for Android mobile phones + you can use identi.ca -a twitter like service with this application.
TinyTwitter
TinyTwitter is a cool java application for mobile twittering. If you don’t want to use excessive data when updating twitter, then this app is for you. This is a light app that works on almost every java enabled phones. It won’t load your friend’s tweets until you order it to do and you can update your status by transferring less data -this is way cheaper than text messages.
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Have your say
- Do you use twitter with your mobile?
- Which app/ software you use?
- How much you twitter?
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Well this is more than complete. I didn’t even know about ‘Android phones’ — guess I have some catching up to do. Good job.
To answer your questions
- I don’t really use my mobile much — you could have guessed that.
- I don’t twitter, but see it can be useful if you live on your mobile.
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I only recently started using Twitter and it s a great service. I never knew about this text messaging thing,
I have a Blackbeery so the Twitterberry sounds promising.
Thanks for te helpful and informative post.
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@Geoserv: twitter is awesome and have some great business values, I’m happy to inform about the new things of twitter.
Text message is an alternative to mobile web updates. Off course mobile web update is cheaper than text messages.
I knew about the SMS and I’d heard about the iPhone, but I didn’t know there was twitter for blackberry and android as well. Quite interesting, although i’m on a pretty expensive Pay-As-You-Go sim so I doubt i’ll be using the text updates much.
@Sean: I suggest you to use whatever is cheaper. In my country, updating with mobile web is cheaper that’s why I use it rather than SMS.
Considering that in the 4th quarter of 2008 that Windows Mobile phones outsold the iPhone, how about adding a section that highlights some of the best Windows Mobile Twitter Clients. There are several, all free, and all excellent.
ceTwit and PockeTwit stand out.
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@Ike: I covered almost every mobile platform but I guess missed the windows mobile platform. There’s nothing much to add in this post but still I’ll try in the upcoming parts, stay tuned!
I use twibble (www.twibble.de) on my java-enabled phone. I’ve also tried jtwitter, but I prefer twibble. It updates only when you ask it to, and offers a menu to reply, dm and retweet messages. It also offers keypad shortcuts for specific commands.
@Jeannette: twibble looks great and thanks for the short overview, I hope you liked this post very much, as well as I did :D
This feature is pretty cool, but luckily I am not that obsessed with it at the moment so only updating from my PC is enought for me!
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