Turning on notifications via the web
- Got to your Settings page.
- Click the Mobile tab.
- Check the boxes next to Text notifications for each type of notification you would like enabled for your device.
- For some options, you can select the Only from people I follow option, or choose to have any Interaction sent to your phone by selecting From anyone.
Turning on notifications via SMS
@replies/mentions or DM notifications:
- If you only want to receive notifications of mentions made by accounts you are following, send set mentions on to your short code.
- If you’d like to receive notifications about other users who mention your username (potentially even users who you are not following) send set mentions all to your short code.
- To turn all mention notifications off, send set mentions off to your short code.
- To turn direct message notifications on, send set messages on to your short code.
- To turn DM notifications off, send set messages off to your short code.
Interaction notifications:
- Send set followers on to your short code if you want to receive notifications for new followers.
- To turn follower notifications off, send set followers off to your short code.
- If you want to receive notifications when someone you follow marks your Tweet as a favorite, send set favorites on to your short code.
- If you’d like to know when other users favorite your Tweets (potentially even users who you are not following) send set favorites all to your short code.
- To turn all favorites notifications off, send set favorites off to your short code.
- If you want to receive notifications when someone you follow retweets one of your Tweets, send set Retweets on to your short code.
- If you’d like to get notifications when other users retweet your Tweets (potentially even users who you are not following) send set Retweets all to your short code.
- To turn all retweet notifications off, send set Retweets off to your short code.
Turning on Tweet notifications from a specific person
Via the web:
- Visit your Settings page.
- Click the Mobile tab.
- Look for the area labeled Text notifications.
- Check the box for Tweets from people you’ve enabled for mobile notifications to receive text message notifications any time a specific person Tweets.
- Visit the profile page or click on the username of the user whose updates you want to receive via SMS (try typing https://twitter.com/username in your browser’s URL bar, or click through from your following page).
- Click the person icon on the user’s profile and select Turn on mobile notifications from the drop-down menu.
- If you no longer wish to receive text message updates from this user, select Turn off mobile notifications, from the same drop-down menu.
Via SMS:
- Send ON [username] (without quotes, brackets, or the @ symbol) to your short code.
- For example, to get @Support’s Tweets sent to your mobile phone in the US, send ON Support to 40404.
Turning all Twitter SMS updates on or off
Via the web:
- Make sure all the boxes in the section Text notifications in your Mobile settings are unchecked.
Via SMS:
- Send OFF to your short code to turn all notifications off.
- You can turn them back on by sending ON to your short code.
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