Brave Sir Robin Posted June 14, 2016 Report Share Posted June 14, 2016 Oh dear. Just looking at IFTTT and I find that users outside of North America are limited to 10 SMSs per month: The SMS Channel has monthly message limits of 100 SMS messages per calendar month for users in U.S and Canada, and 10 SMS messages per month for users outside of North America. You will receive an email alert when you are close to reaching your monthly SMS limit. When IFTTT’s monthly limit of 100 SMS messages has been reached, your Personal Recipes that send SMS will be paused. These Recipes will resume again on the first day of the next calendar month. Anyone got any ideas for getting around this, or any alternative way of turning tweets to SMSs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brave Sir Robin Posted June 14, 2016 Report Share Posted June 14, 2016 Actually I think you can do it directly from Twitter, you just need to register your mobile with your Twitter account, then go into Settings/Mobile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuartbert two hats Posted June 14, 2016 Report Share Posted June 14, 2016 11 minutes ago, Brave Sir Robin said: Oh dear. Just looking at IFTTT and I find that users outside of North America are limited to 10 SMSs per month: The SMS Channel has monthly message limits of 100 SMS messages per calendar month for users in U.S and Canada, and 10 SMS messages per month for users outside of North America. You will receive an email alert when you are close to reaching your monthly SMS limit. When IFTTT’s monthly limit of 100 SMS messages has been reached, your Personal Recipes that send SMS will be paused. These Recipes will resume again on the first day of the next calendar month. Anyone got any ideas for getting around this, or any alternative way of turning tweets to SMSs? Oh fuck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlosj Posted June 14, 2016 Report Share Posted June 14, 2016 13 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said: Oh fuck. Yep. Did I post some links earlier or was that on FB for receiving texts from emails? I think there must be ways of getting tweets in Gmail and then forwarding them to a mobile phone, I've googled these links amongst others but I'm now in meetings and can't take it further. Anyone else want to geek on this? My suggestion would be to get an email from the tweet, and then receive a text of that email. Longwinded but may work. I'm on 3 so won't be checking this, but good luck to those looking for a better way. http://www.wikihow.com/Text-from-Gmail http://www.instructables.com/id/Get-Gmail-To-Text-Emails-To-Your-Phone/?ALLSTEPS https://zapier.com/zapbook/gmail/twitter/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny-yen Posted June 14, 2016 Report Share Posted June 14, 2016 When are we getting a test tweet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoilyX Posted June 14, 2016 Report Share Posted June 14, 2016 10 minutes ago, johnny-yen said: When are we getting a test tweet? Yesterday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brave Sir Robin Posted June 14, 2016 Report Share Posted June 14, 2016 12 minutes ago, carlosj said: Yep. Did I post some links earlier or was that on FB for receiving texts from emails? I think there must be ways of getting tweets in Gmail and then forwarding them to a mobile phone, I've googled these links amongst others but I'm now in meetings and can't take it further. Anyone else want to geek on this? My suggestion would be to get an email from the tweet, and then receive a text of that email. Longwinded but may work. I'm on 3 so won't be checking this, but good luck to those looking for a better way. http://www.wikihow.com/Text-from-Gmail http://www.instructables.com/id/Get-Gmail-To-Text-Emails-To-Your-Phone/?ALLSTEPS https://zapier.com/zapbook/gmail/twitter/ As I mentioned above, you can turn on mobile notifications for particular accounts you follow on Twitter. Twitter won't charge you, but your carrier may well do - it appears EE charges them at 10p a time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlosj Posted June 14, 2016 Report Share Posted June 14, 2016 2 minutes ago, Brave Sir Robin said: As I mentioned above, you can turn on mobile notifications for particular accounts you follow on Twitter. Twitter won't charge you, but your carrier may well do - it appears EE charges them at 10p a time. Sorry, I meant notifications for free, especially if there are going to be loads from several accounts being followed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chazwozza Posted June 14, 2016 Report Share Posted June 14, 2016 @carlosj If you're on 3 then just text FOLLOW @secretglasto to 86444 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chazwozza Posted June 14, 2016 Report Share Posted June 14, 2016 And remember to set up your Twitter account to get smsnotifications from it as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlosj Posted June 14, 2016 Report Share Posted June 14, 2016 4 minutes ago, Chazwozza said: @carlosj If you're on 3 then just text FOLLOW @secretglasto to 86444 Cheers, but 3 is one of the recognised networks, so I'll get them without that needing to be done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the wonderwhy Posted June 14, 2016 Report Share Posted June 14, 2016 Right, in that case I think I've created the recipe for the emails https://ifttt.com/recipes/429486-secret-glasto-emails Just a question of then forwarding the emails to a phone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ericlered Posted June 14, 2016 Report Share Posted June 14, 2016 19 minutes ago, MattDavies__ said: Right, in that case I think I've created the recipe for the emails https://ifttt.com/recipes/429486-secret-glasto-emails Just a question of then forwarding the emails to a phone Ok does anyone know how I can change the email address that these emails would go to ? It has my old email address set up for this, and even when I change my email address in my profile settings, it still sets up new recipes "channels" to the old one, frustrating!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evilmonkeydan Posted June 14, 2016 Report Share Posted June 14, 2016 If you don't have a mobile with a twitter app looks like to can login on this site to register your mobile number and turn on notifications. mobile.twitter.com That's according to this page, haven't looked into it fully as mine is working, smugly walks away from keyboard. https://support.twitter.com/articles/14014 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the wonderwhy Posted June 14, 2016 Report Share Posted June 14, 2016 4 minutes ago, ericlered said: Ok does anyone know how I can change the email address that these emails would go to ? It has my old email address set up for this, and even when I change my email address in my profile settings, it still sets up new recipes "channels" to the old one, frustrating!! I imagine go here https://ifttt.com/email do 'disconnect' and then 'reconnect' with the correct email Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ericlered Posted June 14, 2016 Report Share Posted June 14, 2016 3 minutes ago, MattDavies__ said: I imagine go here https://ifttt.com/email do 'disconnect' and then 'reconnect' with the correct email Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeanoL Posted June 14, 2016 Report Share Posted June 14, 2016 So, err, was that test tweet just made up is there actual evidence Leftfield might be doing some coverage of the referendum on Thursday evening? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuartbert two hats Posted June 14, 2016 Report Share Posted June 14, 2016 (edited) Good find from @Jimmyeatspeople - Alexis Taylor in The Crow's Nest Saturday night at 7.30 6 minutes ago, Jimmyeatspeople said: https://www.reddit.com/r/indieheads/comments/4nxvle/alexis_hot_chip_here_ama/ Alexis spoke a bit about Glastonbury in a Reddit AMA yesterday. Saturday evening Crows Nest slot sounds like a winner! Direct link to comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/indieheads/comments/4nxvle/alexis_hot_chip_here_ama/d47yf1a Edited June 14, 2016 by stuartbert two hats Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big__phil Posted June 14, 2016 Report Share Posted June 14, 2016 1 hour ago, stuartbert two hats said: Oh fuck. This. I didn't actually manage to get Twitter to text me directly (despite setting it up), so now I'm worried. I currently get notifications to my smart phone when certain people Tweet, but they don't come through as SMS messages. Anyone else have this problem? I registered my phone and got an activation text, but no texts since. Would Twitter know that I received a push notification, and know not to send a text? (I don't really know if anyone would know the answer to this, but worth a go!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brave Sir Robin Posted June 14, 2016 Report Share Posted June 14, 2016 Just now, big__phil said: Would Twitter know that I received a push notification, and know not to send a text? (I don't really know if anyone would know the answer to this, but worth a go!) No. When I have SMS notifications on, I get both. Sounds like its something to do with your network/account settings. Have a google for your network and "twitter SMS notifications". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuartbert two hats Posted June 14, 2016 Report Share Posted June 14, 2016 More on Alexis: [–]WhitbyRoadSoldier 1 point 14 hours ago* Are you looking forward to playing Glastonbury? Do you guys play every year? Thanks for everything. You continually put out music I love and play shows that I have an incredible time at... Saw you at Gorilla in Manchester a few years ago. It was superb. Saw you at the warehouse too, again, a great night. Edit: Just saw your glasto response elsewhere...always read the comments. Looking forward to it! permalink embed save report give gold Reply [–]ALEXISTAYLORSOLO[S] 3 points 14 hours ago oh thanks. Come to my solo show in Manchester on June 21st if you are about. with a DJ set from Manchester's own Black Lodge. This year at Glastonbury Hot Chip will only be DJing and doing various solo sets (I'll be at the Crow's Nest Saturday night at 7.30 and Joe is doing some DJ sets most nights I believe) Does this sound like a DJ set? I can't quite tell. His recent stuff could easily be played in the Crow's Nest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big__phil Posted June 14, 2016 Report Share Posted June 14, 2016 Just now, Brave Sir Robin said: No. When I have SMS notifications on, I get both. Sounds like its something to do with your network/account settings. Have a google for your network and "twitter SMS notifications". Thanks, I'll have a look. I'm on EE - has anyone managed to get texts straight from Twitter? I recall that @stuartbert two hats was having some trouble on EE - did you manage to find a solution? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ericlered Posted June 14, 2016 Report Share Posted June 14, 2016 12 minutes ago, big__phil said: Thanks, I'll have a look. I'm on EE - has anyone managed to get texts straight from Twitter? I recall that @stuartbert two hats was having some trouble on EE - did you manage to find a solution? I'm on Virgin (who use EE I believe) and I don't think it handles sms texts straight from twitter. I think they stopped working with O2 as well on my previous sim card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuartbert two hats Posted June 14, 2016 Report Share Posted June 14, 2016 20 minutes ago, big__phil said: Thanks, I'll have a look. I'm on EE - has anyone managed to get texts straight from Twitter? I recall that @stuartbert two hats was having some trouble on EE - did you manage to find a solution? I didn't try to get them from Twitter, I went straight to setting up the (seemingly near-useless) IFTTT. I might try again with Twitter, but I don't intend to use SMS, since I'll be taking a smartphone and a couple of charger bricks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big__phil Posted June 14, 2016 Report Share Posted June 14, 2016 7 minutes ago, ericlered said: I'm on Virgin (who use EE I believe) and I don't think it handles sms texts straight from twitter. I think they stopped working with O2 as well on my previous sim card. Yeah, Google says a similar thing. Screws my plan right up! Might need to get a new PAYG SIM now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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