# Friday, May 22, 2009

InphoniteVoice can now send automated appointment reminders and mass notifications to Twitter accounts. This capability adds to InphoniteVoice's growing arsenal of existing notification methods of voice, email and text messaging. To configure Twitter notifications set the source account and password in the Account Settings.


Twitter Settings in Account Settings

If the Twitter account is not specified then the tweets will come from @InphoniteVoice. The 'Twitter follow-me message' is used to specify the generic message that the recipient Twitter account will receive if they are not following the source account. The only other step is to fill out the Twitter user name in the account's contact information. Here is how the work flow is processed.

  1. The Tweet will be processed just like a text message.
  2. If the source account as specified in the Account Settings (or @InphoniteVoice) is being followed by the recipient then the message will go through immediately. Work flow is complete.
  3. The source account will then follow the recipient Twitter account.
  4. The source account will send a reply message to the recipient using the 'Twitter follow-me message'
  5. The service will continue to 'wait' until the recipient follows the source account. Once the recipient follows the source account the message will be delivered.
  6. If the recipient does not follow the source account within 24 hours the service will 'give up.'

Give it a go and let me know what you think. I always welcome feedback!

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