- @username + message
- D username + message
- WHOIS username
- GET username
- NUDGE username
- FAV username
directs a twitter at another person, and causes your twitter to save in their “replies” tab.
Example: @meangrape I love that song too!
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?
retrieves the profile information for any public user on Twitter.
Example: whois jack
retrieves the latest Twitter update posted by the person.
Example: get goldman
reminds a friend to update by asking what they’re doing on your behalf.
Example: nudge biz
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
- INVITE phone number
this command returns your number of followers, how many people you’re following, and your bio information.
will send an SMS invite to a friend’s mobile phone.
Example: Invite 415 555 1212
| follow user | Follow a user’s tweets – you will receive all her updates. |
|---|---|
| leave user | Stop updates from the user (but leave her in your friend list). |
| delete user | Drop the user from your friend list. |
| invite email/number | Send a twitter invite to a friend’s mail or phone. |
| whois user | Ask Twitter to return a quick info about the given user. |
| off | Turn off all messages to you. Sending it twice will even silence direct messages. |
| on | Will turn the messages on again. |
| d user message | Send the message as a private message to the given user. This message will not appear in any public time line and is usually delivered via email, too. |
| 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. |
