NoahCoffey.com » 4INFO http://noahcoffey.com Web Design, Freelancing, and Indiana. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:15:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Search Twitter with your mobile phone http://noahcoffey.com/observations/search-twitter-with-your-mobile-phone/ http://noahcoffey.com/observations/search-twitter-with-your-mobile-phone/#comments Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:56:58 +0000 Noah http://noahcoffey.com/?p=129 I’ve been playing around with the publisher tools for 4INFO.net and have put together a convenient way to search the “twit-o-sphere” for a keyword via your cell phone using a text message.

4INFO is a text messaging information service that lets you request and subscribe to a wide range of information from various publishers via your cell phone. I’ve signed up as a publisher and have reserved the keyword: TSCAN.

Here’s how it works:

Send an SMS/text message to 44636 in this format: TSCAN <keyword>

For example, if I sent a text message to 44636 with the message:

TSCAN obama

I would get back a short menu of the most recent “tweets” with the name “obama” in them. I could then reply to that message with the corresponding menu number to see the entire “tweet.” Seem confusing? Give it a try! It really works.

I have no idea if this is useful to anyone, but just thought it was a fun way to learn about 4INFO’s publisher services.

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