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TweetBoxLive beta enables international SMS service with twitter account

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on 06.10.09
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I’m not sure whether you’ve noticed recently Twitter is not accepting SMS posts from many asian countries. So what if you are on the road or in a party and you want to update your status on the twitter, better yet you might want to direct message someone or reply to a status. A few days before I was trying to SMS an update but I’ve seen the SMS get delivered to the twitter post phone number, but the tweet doesn’t appear in the twitter profile. After some researching finally I came across TweetBoxLive Beta, a little web application allows you to update your Twitter status along with direct messages and replies using SMS to a specific number. Now thats more like it. TweetBoxLive also enables you to receive tweets in you mobile phone via SMS, but it seems pretty expensive to receive twitter updates from friends. First of all lets take a look at the features TweetBoxLive is offering.

Features:

Send updates from your phone using SMS even Twitter doesn’t accept it from the country you are staying
Send direct messages to users using SMS
Send reply to a user using SMS
Long list of supported countries
Use your current Twitter user account to register
Select your friends you want to receive SMS updates (yes this can be seriously handy)
Search for a specific friend you want to receive SMS updates (yep this is handy too)
Post updates to twitter using the web interface
Purchase credits using Paypal to receive tweets, replies and direct messages via SMS

Now here is the application with screenshots so you can have a look into it:

This is basically the web application interface

A long list of supported countries

You can register using your tweeter account information

Overall settings for receiving tweets, direct messages and replies

Setup preferences for a list of friends to enable direct messages, tweets and replies to your phone

Search for a specific friend to setup preference for that person, it’s really helpful if you have a long list of friends

Credit purchase options for receiving tweets, direct messages or replies to your phone via SMS

And finally here is a tweet published which I’ve sent a SMS to the TweetBoxLive service phone number

Well for the Instance the pricing option for receiving tweets SMS to your phone is pretty expensive. I’m hoping they will reduce the prices in future.

So how do you send an update using SMS. First of all, you need to send a message to the TweetLiveBeta service phone number which you will find once you sign up to the site and logon. It’s located under settings page, if you do not send the verification message then your device will not be registered with the service. You need to send a SMS message using the text (sample only, real verification number contains alpha numeric characters) “Tweet M verifciationcode” to a number +447797800300. As you can see from the telephone number this site is hosted and located at United Kingdom. Once you verify your device, the settings page should display ACCOUNT:ON text. Well you are good to go now.

Send your tweets like this – “Tweet This is my twitter message“, yes you need to prepend the text Tweet with a following space. Then send the message to +447797800300

If you want to send a direct message it would be like – “Tweet D username This is my direct message“, yes you need to prepend Tweet D username, where username is the person you are sending the tweet to. Then send it to +447797800300

Sending replies are similar too, as example – “Tweet @username Here is my reply“, yes it follows the similar way you post a reply at twitter itself. Like before send it to +447797800300.

Note that standard international carrier rates applied when you send a SMS update to the number +447797800300. If you are sending the SMS from Japan to UK the rate of the SMS will follow your local carrier costing.

Ok, thats more of it. Now it’s time for you to do a test drive on it. Sign up here, It’s free.