When I first got Cricket Wireless I was thrilled about getting unlimited texts and minutes at a reasonable price. However, I soon found out that I couldn’t update many of the common social networking sites via text messaging (sms). The only one I really wanted to update was twitter. After a quick goggle search I found out that I was not alone in this dilemma and Cricket has made a statement that they are working towards getting features like this on their network. Needless to say, I was bummed. =(
About 2 months ago, I stumbled upon a site called ping.fm. Ping allows you to update most of your social networking sites from one dashboard. They even have the ability to send in updates via text message to a 10 digit number. This meant that I could text message my twitter updates to ping.fm and they would update my twitter. I have been using Ping for about a month and a half now and have no complaints. They update 99.9% of the time immediately or for sure within 2 minutes of sending your update. Ping however does not send back direct messages (D) or @responses to your cell phone; you have to get on twitter or your twitter app to see your messages. I am fine with that because I was only looking for a way to update my status. This will also work with facebook and myspace status updates. I hope this helps your situation…let me know if it does. =)
*Side Note* This post was transferred from my old blog because many people have found it useful. I want the content to continue to be out on the web to help people that are having this issue with their phones.
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