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Twitter Syntax

Retrieved from the Twitter Lingo page (http://twitter.com/help/lingo), Friends and Followers (http://twitter.com/help/follow).

Send these commands to the appropriate number (below) and interact with Twitter on your mobile phone, via Gtalk (IM twitter at twitter.com) or the web.</div>

Following changes at Twitter (http://twitter.com/blog/2007/07/friends-followers-and-notifications.html) this page may need to be updated.

Table of contents

1 Numbers 2 Commands 2.1 Friends and Followers 2.2 Finding Out Stuff 2.3 Tracking 3 Hash tags 4 See also

Numbers

Commands

Friends and Followers

• invite: 415-555-1212 john sends a text invite to john
• follow username: you will get phone updates from this person (requires initial approval)
  • shortcut: F
• leave username: disables phone updates from this person
  • shortcut: L
• accept: this command will accept a friend invitation. Example: Accept Jade. NOTE: when you accept, you must type in the name exactly as it was sent to you in order for Twitter to recognize it properly.
• deny: this command will deny a friend invitation.
• delete: for now, deleting friends must be done from the web.

• get username: gets this person's last update
• follow all: turns on phone updates (entire friends list)
• leave all: turns off phone updates (entire friends list)
• nudge username: encourages this person to update
• off or stop or sleep: disables twitter phone updates
• on or start or wake: enables twitter phone updates
• whois: text WHOIS BIZ to 40404 you will get the info Biz has filled out in his settings

Finding Out Stuff

• followers: find out who is following your updates (no longer supported)
• stats: find out how many people are following you, and how many friends you have
• help: sends back a list of twitter lingo commands

To update your own Twitter timeline, just text whatever is on your mind to the Twitter number: 40404, or use +447781488126 if you are outside the US.

Tracking

• track [word]: get notifications via SMS or IM when a [word] is mentioned. type again to turn off.

Hash tags

Hash tags (http://hashtags.org/) (aka "#tags") allow tagging of Twitter posts. For example, post "I love #microformats a lot" to Twitter and the post is tagged "microformats".

See also

• picoformats
• twitter nanoformats
• A suggested method of publishing microformats in Twitter posts (http://pigsonthewing.wordpress.com/2008/01/05/suggested-method-of-publishing-microformats-in-twitter-posts/)