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Mobilink proudly presents another first for the Pakistani market, an SMS based Twitter Service. The role of social networking has become more and more entrenched into our daily lives, and so a service of such a kind is keeping in mind your evolving needs. Through this service, you will be able to use twitter via SMS, with no need for internet/GPRS to tweet. The service would allow you to, at the same time, send and receive SMSs. You can follow all their friends/celebrities, with all fellow tweeters tweets getting to you right on your handsets via SMS. Service Features Before you can use Twitter SMS, you’ll have to subscribe to Twitter. - To subscribe to Twitter SMS 'Start' to 40404. If already subscribed, you will get your phone no. linked to your Twitter Account.
- To linkup your Twitter account with handset, SMS 'Signup' to 40404 and follow the steps.
- To unsubscribe completely from Twitter SMS SMS 'Stop' to 40404 and confirm.
You can further use this SMS based service to perform the following actions, the mechanics of which can be found from the website links given below - To create a new Twitter account
- To choose your own user name
- To turn ALL authorized Twitter updates and notifications on
- To turns off all updates including direct messages
- To turn ALL phone notifications off
- To turn on notifications for a specific person on phone. Example: ON ali
- To turn off notifications for a specific person on phone. Example: OFF sara
- To start following a specific user, as well as receive SMS notifications. Example: FOLLOW umer
- To stop receiving SMS notifications for a specific user. Example: LEAVE hasan
- Commands to send private messages, favorite Tweets
- To Follow/Unfollow some fellow tweeter
All of the above mentioned actions can be performed via Twitter SMS. For further details of how to go about this, please go to the following links, Twitter endorsed, for how to perform these actions. Important Information:
- Using on/off username from phone only stops notifications coming to mobile phone; you will still collect a person's updates on the web since you will still be following them. There is no way to unfollow someone or block someone via SMS.
- Following someone from a phone for the first time will also cause you to follow them on the web.
- There is no way to stop following a person without visiting their web profile and removing them. The off, leave, stop, and quit commands will only disable mobile updates from that user.
- Customer can also set individual notifications from a person's profile page on the web, or go to the twitter website and manage all phone notification settings there.
Charges: SMS on Shortcode 40404: Rs. 1 + Tax/SMS
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