Twitter Commands List:

To those new to Twitter and many are these days with the huge influx of people using the service. Twitter text commands can be a pretty powerful tool. Yet this list is nothing you cannot find everywhere on the web – I post it for my own use and if you like it feel free to link to it:

The Official Twitter Commands

• 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
• @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 which words you’re tracking.
• INVITE phone number
  will send an SMS invite to a friend’s mobile phone.
  Example: Invite 415 555 1212
• track term
  Subscribe to tweets containing term regardless who posted it. You don’t need to follow anyone to get those notices.
• untrack term
  Stop the tracking of a term and get no longer messages about it.
• untrack all
  Delete your whole list of tracked terms.
• track
  Ask twitter to return a list of all currently tracked terms.
• stats
  Ask for some basic statistics like number of followers and your track list
• using on/off username from your phone only stops notifications to the place the command comes from; you’ll still collect a person’s updates on the web.
• using follow/leave username from your phone is the same as using on/off username
• following someone from a phone for the first time will also cause you to follow them on the web
• there is no way to stop following a person on the web without visiting their profile and removing them. The off, leave, stop, and quit commands will only disable updates for the device(s) from which they were sent.
• you don’t have to use ON/OFF username from the phone, you can also set individual notifcations from a person’s profile page, or check your following page and manage all phone notification settings there.

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