As with most of you out there, I’m addicted to Twitter and love following your lives up to the minute. Now anything they can do to make that experience better for me, I’m all for. Their newest update gives us tracking; a way to follow words or “concepts”. I think this is the coolest addition to Twitter ever! The #1 thing I love about Twitter is the fact that you can send and receive updates from your mobile via SMS and this tool just extends that even more. You can track any word you want, even someone’s name. The updates are sent to your mobile and denotes someone you don’t follow with parentheses around their name.
It’s so easy to track and untrack things too. Just send ‘track’ and the word you want to track to Twitter’s mobile number 40404. You’ll receive an update stating you’re now tracking that word. To stop tracking it simply send ‘untrack’ and the word you wish to stop getting updates on. Want to find out everything you’re currently tracking? Send ‘track’ alone to find out.
I’m already tracking a bunch of words and am finding a lot of new friends to follow. Thank you Twitter team for making Twitter that much better, for me.
Photo courtesy of Jim Kirks.
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Thanks Clintus! You know I read about this weeks ago but then forgot. What are some of the words you are tracking?
Well obviously clintus and @clintus so I’ll never miss a reply. Also arizona, phoenix, phx, and overheard at the moment. When I’m bored I’ll fire something off like sex or poop just to see what people are talking about. But the funniest one so far is to track ijustine and watch all the people try and talk to her through twitter knowing she tracks her name.
I haven’t tried this yet, but you know I’m a twitter junky, it’s just a matter of time before i’m addicted to this feature…
they just keep feeding the addiction thats for sure.
twitter rules! love reading your tweets, cracked up when you said your crossing your butt cheeks that the 51 is not busy:)