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I'm getting tweets from someone via SMS that I'm not following and has his tweets listed as private.

I'm trying to set up SMS from a MetroPCS phone. Some reason I keep getting a response saying that 40404 is not a valid number to text to. I've got a feeling this is a MetroPCS issue but I'm also hoping there is a way around the problem.... Anyone... Anyone?

I made an account today, and seemed to get along fine with everything with no problem until I tried to verify my mobile device.

I followed all instructions; I put my phone number in the little box, clicked the button, and it gave me a code and a number to send the code to. I did just that, and it sent me back a reply asking for security measures, what my name was. I have a terrible memory, and thought they had asked my name when I registered; so I put 'Ashley'. Send. It sent me back a message saying I was set up for the account Ashley35. And I kind of went, "Uh, what the heck?" I searched up the username, and low and behold, every message I had sent via text was on this 'Ashley35' account. With some fooling around on Twitter, I managed to sign in on that account, delete my mobile number from it, and delete the account.

So I did something wrong, right? I figured if I just tell them what my username is, there isn't a problem. It should work this time.

Re-logged in on my account.

This time, when I verified my number and gave them my username, they made ANOTHER account and all it did was tack on the little number one to the end of the username I ALREADY had. What the heck, again! So I did the same thing with the first account; got into that account it just created, deleted my number, deleted the account.

So now, I have no way of setting up my mobile number for twitter, because it just keeps creating me a new account when I want to use my own!

Is there any way to solve this problem?

I'm trying to set up Twitter with my Sprint Palm Centro. I keep texting 40404, and I don't get a reply. I also tried sending a short code to Google - and still no reply. I called Sprint to see if they could check to see if my short codes were blocked, and they said all of their phones don't support third-party applications such as Twitter. Then how is it that other Sprint customers can tweet from their mobiles and I can't? Please help.

Is there any progress in getting a fix for text messages to NZ mobiles coming through as symbols and gibberish yet? It has been more than 4 months since the problem was first reported now.
Is there any indication as to why it is happening? Is the system trying to encode into an incorrect character set or something?
e.g. I get this sort of thing coming through...
R2 ]St4SAw}$/Ho4{ RRn{^>oPZmOSK 0H,O]dbd~3Yo{ D{q9m/jpr^;?`:<<^!t7.W 4^gt9Kq:
 d~KAi7mR^fs DivY

I think its time for "report spam" to be added to user pages. Twitter is great that you pick who you want to follow but you can't pick who starts following you. It's great that I can block users that I want to but these people that are sending massive follows to various people for the purpose of spamming should be stoppd. The easiest way to do this would be when I click on the URL in the email I got from twitter there should be a "report spam" link on that user's page (well, on all user's pages). This would allow twitter to create algorythms to automatically suspend accounts. For instance, if a new user immediately gets 20 spam reports in a single day, they're suspended pending review whereas 1 spam report in a week could just be accidental and shouldn't be a cause for concern.

I personally think this isn't just a feature request but its almost urgent so that we (as a twitter community) can stop or at least slow this problem down before it becomes too big.

Twitter (both m.twitter.com and twitter.com) is not updating on my Blackberry 8700c using the Cingular browser and does not reflect my personal and friend feed which are displayed flawlessly on twitter.com in Firefox.