Get twitter @replies on your phone with pingie and summize
Posted 3 July 2008 @ 3pm | Tagged thoughts, tips, twitter
While twitter is out repairing its architecture, they seem to have turned off the track feature. track used to be an incredibly useful feature that is very well hidden as a twitter command instead of a part of their UI (epic design fail, or maybe they want it this way). Here’s how to use a combination of services to simulate the same feature, and get your @replies on your phone.
Step 1: do a search for ‘@yourname’ on summize, then copy the link for the feed. If you’re lazy, that link looks like this: http://summize.com/search.rss?q=%40your_username_here.
Step 2: use pingie, a free rss to sms converter. Put in the feed link you got in Step 1, your phone number, and your email. Confirm pingie service via the SMS they send you. You can also do this at Yahoo Alerts rss to sms
Step 3: Profit!
Update: after running this way for a couple days I disovered that pingie has completely failed to deliver any updates to my phone (maybe because of Helio/Sprint), while the Yahoo solution has delivered duplicates with extreme delay. Making both solutions an epic fail. Still looking for a solid rss to sms solution that does what it says it does.
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