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mdy marked one of Eridanus' replies in Twitter as useful. Eridanus replied to the question "Why is the option to follow my friends tweets on my cell grayed out?".

Eridanus replied on October 12, 2008 16:50 to the question "Why is the option to follow my friends tweets on my cell grayed out?" in Twitter:

Please note that there's a workaround here.

There's more information about the problem in the rest of that thread.

Eridanus replied on October 12, 2008 16:49 to the problem "Can't turn on individual friend updates. Phone is activated, Device Updates set to ON." in Twitter:

Please note that there's a workaround here.

mdy marked one of Eridanus' replies in Twitter as useful. Eridanus replied to the question "First time caller. What's "retweeting" mean?".

Eridanus replied on October 12, 2008 11:50 to the question "First time caller. What's "retweeting" mean?" in Twitter:

Pete:

Retweeting just means that you (manually or otherwise) copy a tweet (generally someone else's), perhaps insert the word Retweet at the beginning and even acknowledge the source (if there's room for all that), and send it from your own What are you doing? box. It's all highly informal. Example:

Retweeting: An important piece of news (from @GoodSource)

If person wants you to retweet specifically to them (though others can read it too, if they want), then insert @person before Retweet and the original message. So you might tweet:

@person Retweeting: On Friday, I was walking down the street when...

There are some fancy ways (using 3rd.-party applications) of avoiding the typing (or some of the other manual steps), but that's really all there is to it.

Kenneth IP replied on October 12, 2008 11:03 to the problem "Unable to add Singaporean mobile phone numbers." in Twitter:

Man.. i hope twitter would work sometime soon... would be a nice change!!!

Pete replied on October 12, 2008 11:03 to the question "blogger" in Twitter:

I had that problem and was reading through all the comments and just went to the area on twitter to replace it and it works fine now. So they must have done something at Twit to fix it themselves.

Eridanus marked one of mdy's replies in Twitter as useful. mdy replied to the question "blogger".

mdy replied on October 12, 2008 06:31 to the question "blogger" in Twitter:

Fwiw, looks like the badge code has been fixed. I no longer see the extra "jQuery" code when I add the widget at http://twitter.com/badges/blogger

tj replied on October 12, 2008 04:53 to the problem "Unable to add Singaporean mobile phone numbers." in Twitter:

i wish Twitter would take the same interest in this as we all are - as a user community

A comment on the problem "Replies page showing a not-reply message" in Twitter:

mdy - Now that explains a few @Replies problems!
Wonder what happens if I click the swoosh, change @Friend to @AnotherFriend, and then complete the tweet? That's definitely a bug looking for an exploit ;) – Eridanus, on October 12, 2008 00:33

A comment on the problem "SMS stopped" in Twitter:

Absolutely, I understand. I'll see if I can get something together. Rest assured, we're as concerned about privacy as you. – Brad Kellett, on October 12, 2008 00:28

Eridanus marked one of mdy's replies in Twitter as useful. mdy replied to the problem "Replies page showing a not-reply message".

A comment on the problem "SMS stopped" in Twitter:

Brad Kellett - Thanks for your quick response!
I'd expected rapid access to a table of prices by country (Germany and UK are of particular interest, BTW) for comparison with alternatives. Thus a conventional local SMS might still work out cheaper than a Twitter DM via 3jam.

In Germany we're ultra cautious about entering personal details before reading the small print, because there are some nasty extortion scams around which allege non-payment for expensive services never actually signed up for, and threaten their victims with debt collector thugs. – Eridanus, on October 12, 2008 00:23

Eridanus marked one of mdy's replies in Twitter as useful. mdy replied to the question "Can A Tweet Be Forwarded?".

A comment on the problem "SMS stopped" in Twitter:

Good point, I'll get that fixed up ASAP. We don't charge you a thing during the signup process, FWIW. It doesn't show prices before you sign up at the moment because it's variable depending on where you are, but I'll fix that up.

We accept PayPal or Google Checkout, and the price per message depends on where you are, but is always <10c. – Brad Kellett, on October 11, 2008 23:57

A comment on the problem "SMS stopped" in Twitter:

Brad Kellett - http://3jam.com/twitter won't let me find out anything about 3jam's tariffs or payment methods unless I sign up. I'm unlikely to sign up for any service before I know what it's likely to cost me! – Eridanus, on October 11, 2008 23:50

mdy marked one of Eridanus' replies in Twitter as useful. Eridanus replied to the question "Talk directly to another tweet...".

A comment on the problem "SMS stopped" in Twitter:

I use 3jam myself, but they're currently limited to delivering direct messages only.

If you're willing to pay to receive Twitter sms and you want more than just your direct messages, there are other alternatives, which you'll find listed here: International SMS Alternatives. – mdy, on October 11, 2008 23:25

Eridanus replied on October 11, 2008 21:19 to the question "Talk directly to another tweet..." in Twitter:

Use a Direct Message (DM). Bur this only works betwee Twitter members who are following each other. Thus if you and OtherMember follow each other, simply tweet like this:

d OtherMember This is where your private message starts.

If you want to know more, read some of the other topics tagged direct message or dm.