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Forwarding messages from FrontlineSMS to a Twitter account

This demonstration shows how to set up FrontlineSMS keyword to forward messages to a Twitter account. This can be used to distribute messages to the Internet without a direct Internet connection. In this demo, FrontlineSMS is used to anonymize the messages sent to the Internet by removing callerID and other identifying details of the sender.

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Comment by Joellen Raderstorf on March 4, 2013 at 4:39am: Thanks Gordon for your response. We are using a Netman, modem locked to the national cell phone provider and it works perfectly w/FrontlineSMS, is in our budget, but won't interface with Twitter. The device/modem/netman will only connect if internet is disconnected.

Comment by MARS Lab (Gordon) on March 1, 2013 at 1:05pm: Hi Joellen, the other way I've done this is to have incoming texts forwarded to a twittermail account. This will work if you have email/internet access with FLSMS: http://mashable.com/2007/06/27/twittermail/

Comment by Joellen Raderstorf on February 28, 2013 at 5:44am: Was so excited but found out that our cell carrier in Namibia does not connect with Twitter. We are using a modem, so I am assuming that is that.

Comment by V. Yankey-Wayne on November 2, 2011 at 12:13am: Brilliant!

Comment by MARS Lab (Gordon) on February 25, 2011 at 11:58am: Hi George, there are a couple of postings that describe alternate ways of accessing Twitter using an Internet connection:

http://frontlinesms.ning.com/xn/detail/2052630:Topic:20652

http://frontlinesms.ning.com/profiles/blogs/frontlinesms-as-a

Comment by George Mu'ammar on February 24, 2011 at 3:37pm: Interesting!. This works for the many-but-not-all countries where twitter can be accessed via text messaging. Isn't there an http channel? (via RSS for example)?

Comment by Florence Scialom on February 24, 2011 at 5:55am: Thanks very much for posting this video Gordon; it's really interesting and helpful!

Best,
Florence