You’re probably well aware of the twitter 140 character limit that was established to work with the limits set by mobile phone carriers for SMS text messaging. Did you know that you can take advantage of twitter and use it as a free texting distribution service for people to use who may never know what twitter is or use it themselves.

Anyone with a cell phone can "subscribe" a twitterer’s updates. If the person twittering uses those updates to communicate news and instructions to that group of people, twitter can provide just that tool.

All you need to tell people to follow your updates is the following:

From their cell phone have them send a text to 40404 with the message "follow yourusername". They’ll then receive the following message response back:

Welcome to Twitter. Please confirm by replying with your name. Standard message charges apply, ’stop’ to quite or ‘help’ for help.

In actuality that will then create them a twitter account with the name they text back. It appears twitter will add a number to the name to make it unique if it already exists. For example in testing for this post I now exist at jasonbean1 and bnpositive1 on twitter. I’m still testing to see how I might get access to those accounts if I ever wanted to start truly using twitter.

After creating your account you’ll receive the following text message:

Hi, Jason Bean! Have friends send ‘follow JasonBean1′ to this # for your updates. ‘help’ for more. What are you doing?

When you follow someone you’ll receive the following message response:

You’ll receive a message every time Bnpositive updates. To silence, send ‘off bnpositive’. For more commands, send ‘help’.

Did you catch all that? Free text messaging tool using twitter. Obviously it comes with all the other benefits of twitter too.

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Twitter Provides Free Texting Service

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There’s this watch you can use that looks pretty close to Dick Tracy’s, but I’m not really looking for a watch I can talk to at this point. It’s just a couple of features I’d like to integrate into my watch from my phone that I’m interested in instead. Bluetooth seems to be the logical connection link, but I’m not picky.

What I’m interested in is a watch that connects to my cellphone via Bluetooth that will silently notify me of a phone call without my phone vibrating or ringing. Either a tiny kinetic probe on the underside that would gently poke me when I receive a call, or maybe even a slight electric shock.

Maybe I’m just sick and tired of hearing cellphone go off around me, even my own, but these days I completely silence my phone most of the day now. I just set it in front of me so I can tell when it goes off when it lights up.

Now that I think about it, it would also be nice to have a little CallerID display on the face of the watch too. Maybe the face of the watch could display the face of the caller in my address book.

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Cellphone to Watch Bluetooth Link