Free SMS alerts for Twitter @reply and DMs from Twe2.

by Devakishor Soraisam on February 18, 2009 · 9 comments

in Featured, Reviews, Startups, Tips and Tricks, Twitter

Twe2  is a service which sends free SMS alerts for every twitter replies and DMs you get. It was mainly started for the Europe market, but now it’s available for a lot more countries. You can log in to Twe2 using your twitter ID and password. The first time you log in, you will need to tell them from which country you are and your mobile number. A code will be sent to your number for confirmation. Once the confirmation is done, you will start receiving you @replies and DMs as free SMS alerts.

 

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Twe2 can also send you SMS alert every time somebody mentions your twitter handle as they use twitter search functionality. Additionally you can choose to receive SMS alerts for a particular search term(s) that you want to track on twitter.

Twe2exampleThe notifications may be somewhat delayed, but I’m not complaining as long as I get free notifications.

You can also see from this SMS alert I received for one of my @reply, that an advertisement is sent along with the notification. Above that, the reply notification doesn’t show the complete reply.

This is probably because they are trying to fit in the notification and an advert within 160 chars(1 SMS). 

But I agree with Twe2 and definitely consider the advert a small price…

To keep Twe2 free, we append an advert from the network onto each SMS from the advertising network which in our mind is a small price to pay for such a cool service.

So if you are on twitter, do give this app a try.

Leave a comment and let me know if you like it or not.

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{ 9 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Rosemary Ambale February 22, 2009 at 1:14 pm

I like. Very informative and explained in nice and simple language for tech disabled people like me . I’ll be watching out for further posts.

2 Devakishor Soraisam February 22, 2009 at 3:15 pm

Thanks for commenting.. More interesting posts coming up… :)

3 Dilip February 26, 2009 at 9:54 pm

That’s great.

BTW, added you yo my blogroll: http://www.adamok.net/2007/12/link-exchange.html

4 Anaggh A. Desai March 11, 2009 at 11:40 am

Have been using this for a while, though not really adept at it, but think it is pretty useful at times.

5 Jose Alvarez May 1, 2009 at 9:13 am

I’m still waiting on the confirmation number they were going to SMS me.

6 Devakishor Soraisam May 1, 2009 at 11:43 am

@Jose Twe2 hasn’t been sending me SMS notifications as well.

7 qwertyweb September 3, 2009 at 4:47 pm

well ,
alas !
twe2 is no more :(

8 Tim Hibbard October 10, 2009 at 3:31 am

I created a service that sends text or email when you get @mentions:
http://bit.ly/MentionNotifier

9 SMS Twitter Replies January 20, 2010 at 8:11 am

Since twe2 is no more, I’d love it if you could review me! I send Twitter replies to you as SMS and can take any RSS feed and send it to your twitter account as a direct message. Tell me what you think!

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