Here are the directions on how to run twitter from your texting plan, if you don't have the ability or the desire to use a twitter app on your smartphone.

1. Send a text to your Twitter code with the word START
2. We'll reply and ask you to sign up if you're new or reply with your username if you already have an account.
3. Send your username (do not send any additional characters in the message, or we won't be able to read it correctly)
4. When Twitter asks for your password, carefully send your password to us (remember: passwords are case sensitive!
5. Twitter will ask you to say OK if you want to use Twitter on your phone. Send OK, and you're all set! Now you can send messages to your Twitter code, and they will post as Tweets on your Twitter profile for all your friends to read.
6. To get others' updates delivered to your phone now, you'll need to turn on mobile updates for those whose Tweets you wish to see on your phone. Until you do this, you will not receive any Tweets to your mobile phone. Check out these other phone commands for more tips and tricks!

I personally use both the twitter app for the iPhone as well as the SMS messaging.

Why? Because part of the beauty of twitter community is the community. Finding followers and becoming a following others, is half of the fun of twitter. However, I don't want to sift through hundreds of tweets from people I only know at a distant level. I want to focus in on a much smaller group of tweeters. So, the people that I really want to keep up with I have notifications sent to me via SMS. The others I just glance at briefly when I open the twitter app once or twice a week. This keeps me from wasting a bunch of time sifting through tweets I don't care about.

I know most of the people just getting started with facebook think that it is totally ridiculous for their friends to "swing by" the site once an hour to see if the mafia has visited their homestead in farmville.

I agree.

Do you utilize your facebook notifications by sms texting? You should. I do, and I rarely ever get on the actual facebook site anymore. Most "comments" can be commented, and "likes" liked and "pokes" poked via sms texting.

I stumbled on the SMS feature in Google Calender this morning... yes, thats right an SMS feature. You can send and recieve your calender by text message. This is just one more way Google is proving to me that you don't really need a phone data plan, because an unlimited texting plan can really do it all anyway.

First you have to set up your phone. Standard text messaging cgarges apply.
1. Go to "Calender Settings" > "Mobile Setup."
2. Enter the phone number again and hit "Send Verification Code".
3. After receiving the verification code, enter it in the "Verification Code" section.
4. Click the "Finish setup" button and "Save."　

And away we go!

To receive a notification with your calendar information, send a text message containing one of the following commands to the shortcode '48368' (GVENT):
'next': request your next scheduled event
'day: request all of your scheduled events for the present day
'nday': request your events scheduled for the following day

To create an event on your primary calendar via SMS, simply send a text message containing your event's details to the shortcode "GVENT (48368)."

(For example, if you send a message with something like "Shopping with Sarah at Monterey Market 5pm Saturday," Google Calendar can figure out what you mean and pop the new event into your calendar.)

The SMS is built to function around the quick add feature. Here is a video explaining what that means within google calender.



original video source

There are a ton of tips, tricks, and shortcuts that all can be found on the Quick Add Help Page...

This opens up a ton of possibilities!

You should try out something called Google SMS. It is an awesome tool. Test it by txting 'weather 29651' to 466453 (Google) Or try 'Yankees' I love it. What do you think? :-)