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	Tracking Twitter

Abra Miles

11-5-2007 8:31 AM

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cell phone, cellphone, community, keep in touch, mobile phone, sms, tech, technology, twitter

Abra Miles says:

This idea is very cool, now to get it working...

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/293976e7-3e52-4fc0-9ec3-6c231796ff02/0E42C1AE-561A-47DC-BF15-CDC0496F6FC2/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://twitter.com/blog/2007/09/tracking-twitter.html" href="http://twitter.com/blog/2007/09/tracking-twitter.html" style="font-size: 11px;">twitter.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://twitter.com/blog/2007/09/tracking-twitter.html"><H3>Tracking Twitter </H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://twitter.com/blog/2007/09/tracking-twitter.html">One of the driving philosophies behind Twitter has always been to get away from 
the computer, get out there and do something, and tell your friends about it in 
real-time.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://twitter.com/blog/2007/09/tracking-twitter.html">Today we're releasing a tiny feature to do just that, and we're calling it 
"Track." If you've <A href="http://twitter.com/devices">set up your phone or 
IM</A> on Twitter, you can send a command like:<BR><BR><SPAN 
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">track NYC</SPAN><BR><BR>When someone (anyone who 
updates in public) mentions "NYC," you'll get it on your device in real-time. 
From there you can send "<SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">whois username</SPAN>" 
to find out more about that person, or "<SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">follow 
username</SPAN>" to follow his or her updates. Don't want to receive anymore 
about NYC? Toggle it off with:<BR><BR><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">untrack 
NYC</SPAN><BR></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://twitter.com/blog/2007/09/tracking-twitter.html">Want to get a list of what you're currently tracking? Send "<SPAN 
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">track</SPAN>" alone (or "<SPAN 
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">stats</SPAN>"). Turn them all off by sending "<SPAN 
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">track off</SPAN>".<BR></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://twitter.com/blog/2007/09/tracking-twitter.html">What if you wanted an update anytime <SPAN 
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">anyone</SPAN> mentioned your name, your favorite 
band, "NYC," "earthquake," or "Steve Jobs?" In real-time?</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://twitter.com/blog/2007/09/tracking-twitter.html">What will you track?</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0E42C1AE-561A-47DC-BF15-CDC0496F6FC2/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>