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How To Find Your Twitter Short Code or Long Code

If you add your phone to Twitter, you can tweet by sending a text message to a short or long code. Sending a text message to any of these short or long phone numbers will post your message as a Tweet to your Twitter profile and be sent to all of your followers. Read below to find your country's code.

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Short codes and how to use them:

We currently support 2-way (sending and receiving) Twitter SMS via short codes for the below listed countries. To get started, send the word START or SIGNUP in a text message to any of these Twitter numbers:

Country Mobile Operator ShortCode Supporting:Notes
SMS  MMS 
Satellite Provider Thuraya 1888 ✔

Inmarsat
 898 ✔

Iridium 40404 ✔






Afghanistan Roshan 40404 ✔

Etisalat  40404 ✔

Argentina Movistar 89338 ✔

Personal 89338 ✔

Claro 89338 ✔

Nextel 89338 ✔
Nextel only supports sending updates to Twitter
Aruba Digicel 176 ✔

Antigua Digicel 176 ✔

Anguilla Digicel 176 ✔

Australia Telstra 0198089488 ✔

Azerbaijan Bakcell 4040 ✔

Bahrain VIVA 88000 ✔ ✔
Zain 98555  ✔ ✔
Bangladesh Airtel 9594 ✔
Citycell 9594 ✔

Belarus life:) 40404 ✔

Bermuda Digicel 176 ✔

Brasil TIM 40404 ✔ ✔
Nextel 40404 ✔

Bhutan B-mobile 40404 ✔

Bolivia Entel 40404 ✔
Tigo 40404 ✔

Viva 40404 ✔

Bonaire Digicel 176 ✔

Botswana Mascom
 13123 ✔

Canada
21212 ✔
MMS supported for Bell Mobility, Rogers Communications, and Telus Mobility.
Cambodia Cellcard 40404 ✔

Smart Mobile 40404 ✔ ✔
Cameroon MTN 8711 ✔

Colombia Tigo 40404 ✔

Côte d'Ivoire MTN 4443 ✔

Curacao Digicel 176 ✔

Democratic Republic Congo Tigo 40404 ✔

Vodacom 40404 ✔

Republic of Congo MTN Congo 6060 ✔
Denmark Telmore 40404 ✔

Egypt Vodafone 4040 ✔

Mobinil  2222 ✔

El Salvador Digicel 40404 ✔

Tigo 40404 ✔

Movistar 40404 ✔

Fiji Digicel 40404 ✔

Vodafone 40404 ✔

Georgia Beeline 40404 ✔

Geocell  40404 ✔

Magticom 40404 ✔
Grenada Digicel 176 ✔

Guatemala Tigo 40404 ✔

Movistar 40404 ✔

Guinea Conakry MTN 40404 ✔

Guyana Digicel 1443 ✔

Haiti Digicel 40404 ✔

Voila 40404 ✔

Honduras Digicel 40404 ✔

India Bharti Airtel 53000 ✔ ✔
Reliance 53000 ✔

Videocon 53000 ✔

TATA DOCOMO 53000 ✔

Indonesia AXIS 89887 ✔

3 89887 ✔

Telkomsel 89887 ✔

XL Axiata 89887 ✔

Bakrie Telecom 89887 ✔

TelkomFlexi 89887 ✔

Indosat 89887 ✔

Iraq Zain 71117 ✔

Asiacell 1432 ✔

KOREK 9988  ✔

Ireland Vodafone 51210 ✔

Meteor Mobile 51210 ✔

Isle of Man Manx 89887 ✔

Sure (CWC) 86444 ✔
Italy Wind 4880804 ✔

Vodafone 3424486444 ✔ ✔
TIM 3399940424 ✔

Jamaica Digicel 176 ✔

Jordan Zain 90903 ✔ ✔
Umniah 98788 ✔ ✔
Kazakhstan Beeline 4040 ✔
Kcell/Activ 4040 ✔

Kenya Safaricom 89888 ✔

Airtel  40404 ✔

Kuwait Zain 89887 ✔

VIVA 89887 ✔
Korea LG U+ #1234 ✔

Kosovo Ipko Kosovo 16161 ✔
Kyrgyzstan Megacom 4040 ✔

Beeline 4040 ✔ ✔

Liberia Cellcom 4040 ✔
Macedonia VIP 40404 ✔

ONE 40404 ✔

Madagascar Zain
 335640404 ✔

Malaysia Maxis 28933 ✔

Tune Talk 28933 ✔

DiGi 28933 ✔

Celcom 28933 ✔

Maldives Wataniya 4040 ✔ ✔
Mexico Nextel 6464 ✔
Telcel 6464 ✔
only supports sending updates to Twitter
Montenegro Telenor 14774 ✔
Morocco inwi 404 ✔

Nauru Digicel 40404 ✔

New Zealand Vodafone 8987 ✔

Telecom NZ 8987 ✔

Nicaragua Movistar 89887 ✔

Nigeria Zain 40404 ✔

MTN 40404 ✔

Glo Mobile   20644 ✔

Oman Nawras 90914 ✔
Omantel 91200 ✔
Pakistan Mobilink 40404 ✔

Zong 40404 ✔

Ufone 40404 ✔

Telenor 40404 ✔ ✔
Palestinian Territories Wataniya 40404 ✔

Jawwal  37373 ✔

Panama Digicel 3010 ✔

Movistar 89887 ✔

Papua New Guinea Digicel 40404 ✔

Paraguay Personal 40404 ✔ ✔
Tigo 40404 ✔

Romania Vodafone 89338 ✔

Cosmote 89338 ✔

Russia Beeline 8080 ✔

MegaFon Moscow 7070 ✔
Rwanda MTN 3434 ✔

Saudi Arabia STC 840404 ✔

Zain 710001 ✔

Mobily 606040 ✔ ✔
Serbia Vip mobile 40404 ✔

mt:s 40404 ✔ ✔
Telenor 40404 ✔

Seychelles Airtel 9695 ✔

Cable & Wireless 9695 ✔
Sri Lanka Dialog 40404 ✔

Telecom Mobitel 40404 ✔ ✔
Etisalat Lanka 40404 ✔

St. Lucia Digicel 176 ✔

St. Vincent Digicel 176 ✔

St. Kitts Digicel 176 ✔

Sudan Zain 40404 ✔

Sweden 3 71017 ✔

Tanzania

 Tigo 15508 ✔
Tonga Digicel 4040 ✔

Trinidad and Tobago Digicel 40404 ✔

Tunisia Tunisiana 871220 ✔

Turkey KKTC Telsim 2444 ✔

Vodafone
 2444 ✔

Turkcell 2555 ✔

Uganda MTN 179 ✔

UK Orange 86444 ✔ ✔
Vodafone 86444 ✔ ✔
O2 86444 ✔ ✔
3 86444 ✔

Sure (CWC) 86444 ✔
Ukraine life:) 40404 ✔

United Arab Emirates du 8080 ✔

Uruguay Antel 40404 ✔

US
40404  ✔
MMS Support for AT&T, Verizon,
C Spire, US Cellular, MetroPCS
Uzbekistan Beeline 89338 ✔ ✔

Ucell  89338 ✔

Venezuela Movistar 89338 ✔

Yemen MTN 7070 ✔

 

Long codes and how to use them:

If your country and carrier is not listed as having a short code above, you can use one of the following one-way long codes to post messages to Twitter. You will not be able to receive Tweets through this channel, however.

  • UK : +447624800379
  • GERMANY : +4915705000021 
  • FINLAND : +3584573950042 
Note: Subscribers may be charged international message rates using these codes.

To add your phone to your Twitter profile via long code:

  1. Send a text to the correct long code listed above with the word START.
  2. Wait 2 minutes.
  3. Next, send your username to the Twitter long-code. Do not use @ or quotes. Send your username ONLY, like so: hotdogsladies
  4. Wait 2 minutes after sending your username.
  5. Next, send your password to the same number. This is case sensitive, so be sure you are sending your password correctly.
  6. Wait 2 minutes.
  7. Finally, send the word OK to the same number.

To test if you have correctly added your phone, send a "test" Tweet to your long code number (just like sending a normal text message). Then, log in to www.twitter.com via the web to make sure your Tweets shows up on your Profile. If so, you have correctly added your phone. Once again, you will not be able to receive any texts back from a long code.

How to tweet from your phone is your carrier is not listed above:

If your carrier is not listed above, first see if you are able to use one of the one-way long codes listed above to post messages to Twitter. We're working on getting more local short codes for other places, and we'll update this list as they become available. If you travel out of the country, check with your mobile provider to see if they route text messages to local short codes. Follow @twittermobile for more updates. Thanks!

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