Tracking Help

You can get the same list via im if you have an IM account set up in your Twitter devices page (login required).

There's nothing equivalent on the Twitter web page yet, as far as I know. Track currently works with IM and SMS only.

You can also send 'untrack keyword' to stop following that keyword.

To stop tracking everything, send 'untrack all'

For more info, see this Track FAQ page from Twitter.

You can also see what you're tracking by sending "stats" (without quotation marks) to Twitter via SMS or IM. This'll tell you various stats like how many people you're following, etc, and it'll also include the words/phrases you're tracking.

More IM/SMS commands can be found here: http://twitter.com/help/lingo

i sent track to twitter via sms to track my profile moixoxo and its tracking it but when i get responses whether @ or not i dont get a txt about it. does track command only work if someone is talking about u within the public timeline?

thanks for replying but im still confused. i thought if someone else types in what ever i am tracking in this case moixoxo i will receive a txt that shows that.

Hi moixoxo. Yes, you've described the general idea behind Track accurately. 8-)

For what it's worth, I *have* noticed that Track alerts have been arriving several hours (sometimes as much as 7 hours) late for me. For example, some alerts that I should have received last night only arrived this morning.

Also, Twitter had recently announced on their blog (see last section of this blogpost) that they'll be enhancing the Track feature, so I suspect we'll continue seeing some unusual behavior until all the enhancement work is done.

If you continue to experience weird behavior after they've announced that Track has been enhanced, I hope you'll post another note here.