Connect your phone to your Twitter

You may already know that you can connect your phone to your Twitter account via SMS (text messages), but we think web activation is the easiest way to make your Twitter account mobile. To add your phone to your Twitter profile from the web, follow the steps below.

1. Log in and click the settings link in the drop-down in the top right-hand corner of your screen, where you see your username (Fig. 1, below)
2. visit your Mobile tab on your profile's Settings page. (Fig. 2, below)
3. Choose your country from the first drop-down box.
4. Enter your number without a country code or leading zero (these are handled automatically by our system, as shown in the red box above).
5. If prompted, choose your carrier from the drop-down box (non-US users only**). If you don't see your carrier there, read this article.
6. Click Start to begin verifying your phone
7. You will be directed to send a text message (as shown below), containing the word "GO", to your Twitter number.
8. Send GO from your phone.
9. After we receive the confirmation code from you, we will add your device and you'll be ready to use Twitter on your phone.
   
   Please note: Additional steps which may apply to users outside of the US are shown below.

Figure 1: navigating to Settings from the drop-down menu.

Fig 2., entering mobile tab (steps 2-7)

**If you are in a country other than the US, you may need to follow these extra steps:

You will be asked to Choose your carrier after you have entered your number, as shown below. Select the carrier that you use and click on Start to verify your phone.

You may need to select the desired language you'd like to send and receive SMS Tweets in:

Congratulations! Now you can send text messages to your Twitter code, and they will post as Tweets on your Twitter profile for all your friends to read. To get others' updates delivered to your phone now, you'll need toturn on mobile updates for those whose Tweets you wish to see on your phone. Until you do this, you will not receive any Tweets to your mobile phone. Check out our list of other phone commands for more tips and tricks!