If you’re currently monitoring multiple Twitter accounts using Twext.me, you will be able to continue to do so. Those of you who were monitoring a single Twitter account, we will be deleting your account.
Twitter launched SMS notification for mentions today. Since this is essentially why we created Twext.me for Ben Martin, we will be evaluating what to do with Twext.me in the next 24 hours.
When we first launched Twext.me, Twitter was in the early stages of their OAUTH launch. There were a few hitches when we made our first attempts to initiate, so we decided to simply require users to input their Twitter username and password. The recent surge in Twitter spam has people feeling sketchy about giving anyone [...]
If you’ve been with Twext.me from the beginning, you know that we’ve been using the various mobile carrier email-to-text options to deliver your Twitter mentions vis SMS. This worked fine, but most of the carriers generated a unique short code for each notification we sent. We found the solution in TextMarks.com.
One weekend of live testing was all it took to figure out that some changes needed to be made if “power users” were going to find any benefit to the Twext.me service. Ben Martin and Derek Massey both sent in their requests for updates. And we made the changes.
Zeek Interactive launches a new Twitter service called Twext.me. Twext.me sends your Twitter mentions to you via SMS text message.
Amy Broghamer engaged me on Facebook a few moments ago and had a “few” questions about the Google Voice service. Does Google email you your messages? How accurate are they at taking the spoken word to text? That is my biggest issue… that and my messages are getting cut off before I get the phone [...]