Comments on: Get @replies From Twitter SMSed (India)

By: Winifredrayen

Winifredrayen — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 11:29:00 +0000

Bcoz of the new OAuth Manager, we are not able to create the freemyfeed :( ne other work arounds ?

By: Yash Gupta

Yash Gupta — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:06:52 +0000

http://tr.im/15ni will this work in canada?

By: Aayush Arya

Aayush Arya — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:35:06 +0000

Wow, that’s really useful. Thanks, man.

By: manan

manan — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:25:26 +0000

Yes, it will only send you the ones that begin with @username. The twitter search thing can also be used. But, the time delay is quite too much.

By: Aditya

Aditya — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:04:16 +0000

I use a method similar to this- I have the Google SMS channel and all, but for the feed, instead of using the official RSS replies feed (http://twitter.com/statuses/replies.rss) I use a Twitter search feed. Go to http://search.twitter.com/ and put in ‘@username’- In my case, ‘@sengupta’.

As far as the merits and demerits are concerned-

With this method, you get all tweets where you’re mentioned, that is, you get tweets even if the ‘@username’ bit is not the first word in the tweet.

With the RSS replies feed method, I believe you only get tweets where the ‘@username’ bit is the first word in the tweet, ie. whatever is in your Twitter replies page. Correct me if I’m wrong.

I’ve been using this method for a while. Like you mentioned, there is a perceptible time delay till the replied are received on the phone. But then again, you only get what you pay for;-)