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Using SMS With Twitter

Twitter now allows you to follow someone on SMS if you don’t have a Twitter account. The tool is called “Fast Follow.” If you text “follow (username)” to Twitter’s shortcut of 40404, then you’ll receive that users updates in your text messaging.

When you are not signed in to Twitter, you can’t Tweet yourself. But some people may just want to receive messages from selected sources. And it may be a good way to send massages to customers and employees quickly and efficiently.

Do you think you will use Fast Follow? If so, how?

Twitter dangled a piece of cheese in front of some social media professionals recently with a setting called “Tweet Media.” It involves tools that will allow users to embed photos and videos into there Twitter messages.

On some accounts on July 26th, there were account settings options for the user to click that enabled Tweet Media.

Here’s what it looked like:

As of the writing of this article Twitter has removed the options from several of the accounts that temporarily had it. When Mashable Media asked Twitter about the option, they replied:

We’re constantly exploring features and settings. What you saw was a small test of a potential consumption setting for inline media. We show inline media on our own iPhone and Android apps.

Keep an eye out for some significant changes in Twitter’s presentation methods.

Twitter keeps growing and they are adding another service. Today they begin rolling out Twitter Location. Users will be given the option to give some information on their location. How specific will be the call of the Twitterer.

This service is expected to be worked in over the next week. Users in 65 countries will start to see the “Add your location” link below the Tweet box.

For those of you using Foursquare and Gowalla, Twitter has worked with both services to incorporate the location features with those services. And application programmers will be able to integrate the service into their applications. So be on the lookout for some neat apps that will soon be available.

TweetDeck is a free application that you can download onto your computer. It monitors your Twitter accounts. It also allows you to post onto Twitter and Facebook.

TweetDeck lets you create all kinds of sorting and filtering that helps maximize your time monitoring what people are Tweeting.

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Download TweetDeck

Go to TweetDeck.com and download the software. Then create some lists to follow and make some postings. It won’t take long for you to discover what a powerful tool this is.

There are a number to tools that help you maximize your use of Twitter.

Tools like Hashtags, Ping, Hootsuite, Tweet Later, Twollo, Twitter Local, and Tweet Deck are briefly explained in this video. Give some of them a try.

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