How To Use Twitter To Get Free Sport Scores, Transport Delays Alerts and Other Tweeted Info To your Mobile Phone.

Did you see my post on How To Get Twitter Updates Via SMS Messages?

The launch of Twe2 (site that provides the Twitter mobile service) is great news on it’s own for anybody that wants to keep up to date with all their tweets whilst they are away from a computer.

However, today I want to show you how I use the search function of Twe2 to get seriously helpful SMS updates via Twitter. Most of you have probably seen services advertised that offer to send SMS updates of various infomation (like football scores, train delays, weather reports ect…) to your phone for a nice tidy fee. Using the Twe2 search feature and some very helpful folk who have set up Twitter bots to provide a Twitter stream of this kind of infomation, we can now receive these updates to our mobile phones absolutely free of charge.

Right, here’s the how to;

First your going to need the username of the Twitter bot that is Tweeting the updates you are interested in. You can find a long list of these here. There are loads more you just need to find them via a twitter search or good old google. Next enter the username into the search box on your Twe2 alerts page. Hit the add search term button.

Done! It is that easy. With the example above the search Twe2 will now send me updates about any delays on the London Midlands Train network.

Can’t find a Twitter bot to send you tweets for the infomation you want?

Then you have a couple of choices.

One, just head over to the awesome new Twitter How To Group and ask the community if anybody knows the username of a Twitter bot that tweets the updates you are looking for.

Two, build your own. Really a simple RSS feed is all you need to get started but there are a couple of things to watch out for. For those that are interested I will get a post up very soon that looks at putting an auto tweeting info bot together, this way you will always be able to get not only tweets of the infomation you are interested in but also SMS messsages.

PLEASE HELP YOUR FELLOW TWEEPS!

Please post in the comments below the username and type of infomation tweeted of any Twitter bots that you follow or have found. If we get enough unique suggestions I will write up a post of the list to help others find the information they are looking for.

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