This is more of an idea than something I have needed yet but I don’t see why it wouldn’t work.

• Open a twitter account if you haven’t already got one.
• Open another twitter account and call it something_notifier or something fun like that.
• Setup your mobile on the first account and set it up to follow the notifier account and receive SMS notifications when it updates.
• Test this.
• Now whenever the notifier twitter account it updated you will receive a text with the contents of the update.

For example, the next step could be to install a twitter API implementation on your servers then update twitter if something catastrophic happens. Remember to alter the privacy settings and set it so that only your followers can see your updates.

But I’m sure there are loads of uses for this; any ideas? Although SMS messaging from the internet is easy in the USA, its a lot more complicated in the UK and Europe.

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