twittenator 15 Twitter Commands You Should Know About

Do you know how to:

  • Turn off notifications for a specific person on your phone
  • Retrieve the latest Twitter update posted by the person
  • Remind a friend to update by asking what they’re doing on your behalf
  • How to send an SMS invite to a friend’s mobile phone

There are some interesting statistics on people using Twitter I wanted to share with you. In March of 2008 Twitter recorded:

Total Users: 1+ million
Total Active Users: 200,000 per week
Total Twitter Messages: 3 million/day

Twitter also shows these numbers in one of their graphs:

Yet hundreds and thousands of marketers are abandoning every day or simply, stubbornly refusing to use Twitter, due to huge lack of knowledge of how to benefit the most from Twitter. I created an “Ultimate Twitter Optimization Blueprint” for those just starting out or thinking about it, and I also wrote a blog post on  “Top 10 Cardinal Sins of Twittering” back in March – in a case you have not come across them somewhere on the internet so far.

To get even more from your interactions on Twitter, today, I’d like to tell you about some really cool commands that Twitter is allowing you to use from the web and from the phone as well.

I hope you find these as helpful as I did.

The Official Twitter Text Commands 

Turning Twitter off and on: device notifications

ON: turns ALL phone notifications on.

OFF: turns ALL phone notifications off.

STOP, QUIT: stops all messages to your phone immediately

ON username: turns on notifications for a specific person on your phone. For example, ON alissa.

OFF username: turns off notifications for a specific person on your phone. For example, OFF blaine.

FOLLOW username: this command allows you to start receiving notifications for a specific person on your phone. Example: follow jeremy

LEAVE username: this command allows you to stop receiving notifications for a specific person on your phone. Example: leave benfu

Fun Stuff: friends, favorites, and stats!

@username + message

directs a twitter at another person, and causes your twitter to save in their “replies” tab.
Example: @meangrape I love that song too!

D username + message

sends a person a private message that goes to their device, and saves in their web archive.
Example: d krissy want to pick a Jamba Juice for me while you’re there?

WHOIS username

retrieves the profile information for any public user on Twitter.
Example: whois jack

GET username

retrieves the latest Twitter update posted by the person.
Example: get goldman

NUDGE username

reminds a friend to update by asking what they’re doing on your behalf.
Example: nudge biz

FAV username

marks a person’s last twitter as a favorite. (hint: reply to any update with FAV to mark it as a favorite if you’re receiving it in real time)
Example: fav al3x

STATS

this command returns your number of followers, how many people you’re following, and your bio information.

INVITE phone number

will send an SMS invite to a friend’s mobile phone.
Example: Invite 415 555 1212

What is your favorite Twitter Tip?

I’d love to hear some of the tips and trick that other marketers have learned in their time as Tweeps . Share your lessons in comments below so we can learn from your experience!

Find these and more cool features at http://help.twitter.com/portal

Related posts:

  1. Top 10 Things You Must Know About Twitter
  2. Twitter Marketing Tips
  3. Twitter Unfollow Tracker Tool
  4. How to Twitter: Top 10 Cardinal Sins of Twittering and Some Twitter Etiquette Tips
  5. 8 Reasons You Should Be On Twitter

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