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How to Update Twitter and Facebook using Siri

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jaburgeson

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Oct 15, 2011
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So I'm not sure if this has been posted before but its real simple to update both of them using Siri.

For Twitter, text START to 40404 if you are in the US and follow the instructions. When you are done create a contact named Twitter with the 40404 number. Now all you have to do is tell Siri to send a Message to Twitter saying "What you want to Tweet"

Same goes for Facebook. As long as your number is linked through the website on Facebook on your profile. Create a contact named Facebook with the number 32665 associated with it, and all you have to do is say Siri send a Message to Facebook saying "Your status Update".

This works fairly well. The only problem I found was when I activated Siri, and said, Send a Message to Twitter. Normally with a normal contact it would ask me what would I like to say, but in this case, it says it can't send tweets.

So as long as you say Send a Message to Twitter saying "Your Tweet" it works great.

Hope this helps :)
 
jaburgeson said:
So I'm not sure if this has been posted before but its real simple to update both of them using Siri.

For Twitter, text START to 40404 if you are in the US and follow the instructions. When you are done create a contact named Twitter with the 40404 number. Now all you have to do is tell Siri to send a Message to Twitter saying "What you want to Tweet"

Same goes for Facebook. As long as your number is linked through the website on Facebook on your profile. Create a contact named Facebook with the number 32665 associated with it, and all you have to do is say Siri send a Message to Facebook saying "Your status Update".

This works fairly well. The only problem I found was when I activated Siri, and said, Send a Message to Twitter. Normally with a normal contact it would ask me what would I like to say, but in this case, it says it can't send tweets.

So as long as you say Send a Message to Twitter saying "Your Tweet" it works great.

Hope this helps :)
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Hmm, I've tried it and Siri says "To whom shall I send this message?".

I have 'Twitter' in my contacts under 40404.
 
You have to say it like a normal sentence....so if I wanted to Tweet the Coffee is great today I would launch siri and say "Send a message to Twitter saying The Coffee is great today" and it should pop up. It does for me at least.

If you just pop up Siri and say "Send a Message to Twitter" it won't go.

Hopefully that helps.
 
Here is a picture of what I'm saying and what is happening using the example I gave in my last post.
 

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jaburgeson said:
You have to say it like a normal sentence....so if I wanted to Tweet the Coffee is great today I would launch siri and say "Send a message to Twitter saying The Coffee is great today" and it should pop up. It does for me at least.

If you just pop up Siri and say "Send a Message to Twitter" it won't go
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Actually you can get it to work by saying "Send a message to Twitter". All you have to do is go into the Twitter contact in your contact app and give it the nickname "Twitter". Worked for me.

EDIT: Saying "send a text to Twitter" doesn't work, you have to say "message".
 

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gdjsnyder said:
Actually you can get it to work by saying "Send a message to Twitter". All you have to do is go into the Twitter contact in your contact app and give it the nickname "Twitter". Worked for me.

EDIT: Saying "send a text to Twitter" doesn't work, you have to say "message".
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Yeah that does work, hah great tip for a tip :)
 
OP, this is awesome, thank you! Twitter worked perfectly, but I haven't seen the update in Facebook yet. I'm gonna troubleshoot it a little because it's probably something I did wrong...lol.
 
You all are so fortunate. I haven't been able to get Siri to even once yet! Network not available every time. Been trying since Friday morning when I got the darn thing!

Have tried everything. Turning it off. Throwing it against the floor. You name it.
 
Facebook updates via email method

If you want to do this for Facebook updates, just create a contact named Face and make the email address your custom email address that FB gives you for emailing your status updates. You can find that here: http://www.facebook.com/mobile/

Then, just activate Siri and say “Email Face” and whatever you make the subject of the email will be show up as your status update. You can also just say “Email Face about this is cool.” and it will make your status update say “This is cool.” It will ask you what you want the email to say but just say anything and hit Send. The only thing that gets posted is the Subject line.
 
This was a great post and should be a sticky quite frankly. It's incredibly useful and works like a charm (or at least as well as Siri works).

Great job and thanks!
 
bnarcum said:
If you want to do this for Facebook updates, just create a contact named Face and make the email address your custom email address that FB gives you for emailing your status updates. You can find that here: http://www.facebook.com/mobile/

Then, just activate Siri and say “Email Face” and whatever you make the subject of the email will be show up as your status update. You can also just say “Email Face about this is cool.” and it will make your status update say “This is cool.” It will ask you what you want the email to say but just say anything and hit Send. The only thing that gets posted is the Subject line.
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For some reason, the email get stuck in my "OutBox" and it never get send. Any fix for this? :confused:
 
I just made an account on Posterous.com

Then I linked my twitter account in Autopost settings

Then I made a contact on my phone called Tweeter

"Send an email to Tweeter"

what would you like it to say?

"[content]"

ready to send?

"Change the Subject"

What would you like the subject to be?

"[subject]"

Ready to send?

"yes".





Can also auto post to Facebook and other places in the same way.

:cool:


https://twitter.com/#!/l3it3r

enjoy.

(the last tweet I just did, Siri asked for the subject first... weird.)
 
jaburgeson said:
So I'm not sure if this has been posted before but its real simple to update both of them using Siri.

For Twitter, text START to 40404 if you are in the US and follow the instructions. When you are done create a contact named Twitter with the 40404 number. Now all you have to do is tell Siri to send a Message to Twitter saying "What you want to Tweet"

Same goes for Facebook. As long as your number is linked through the website on Facebook on your profile. Create a contact named Facebook with the number 32665 associated with it, and all you have to do is say Siri send a Message to Facebook saying "Your status Update".

This works fairly well. The only problem I found was when I activated Siri, and said, Send a Message to Twitter. Normally with a normal contact it would ask me what would I like to say, but in this case, it says it can't send tweets.

So as long as you say Send a Message to Twitter saying "Your Tweet" it works great.

Hope this helps :)
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Thanks!!!

Naming the Twitter Contact "Twitter" actually works.

Also, you can do the same with Google+
 
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l3it3r said:
I just made an account on Posterous.com

Then I linked my twitter account in Autopost settings

Then I made a contact on my phone called Tweeter

"Send an email to Tweeter"

what would you like it to say?

"[content]"

ready to send?

"Change the Subject"

What would you like the subject to be?

"[subject]"

Ready to send?

"yes".





Can also auto post to Facebook and other places in the same way.

:cool:


https://twitter.com/#!/l3it3r

enjoy.

(the last tweet I just did, Siri asked for the subject first... weird.)
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I'm confused. You make the contact for Twitter, but what email address do you put in for the Twitter contact? You didn't mention how that works.
 
KentuckyHouse said:
I'm confused. You make the contact for Twitter, but what email address do you put in for the Twitter contact? You didn't mention how that works.
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jaburgeson said:
So I'm not sure if this has been posted before but its real simple to update both of them using Siri.

For Twitter, text START to 40404 if you are in the US and follow the instructions. When you are done create a contact named Twitter with the 40404 number. Now all you have to do is tell Siri to send a Message to Twitter saying "What you want to Tweet"

Same goes for Facebook. As long as your number is linked through the website on Facebook on your profile. Create a contact named Facebook with the number 32665 associated with it, and all you have to do is say Siri send a Message to Facebook saying "Your status Update".

This works fairly well. The only problem I found was when I activated Siri, and said, Send a Message to Twitter. Normally with a normal contact it would ask me what would I like to say, but in this case, it says it can't send tweets.

So as long as you say Send a Message to Twitter saying "Your Tweet" it works great.

Hope this helps :)
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Rather than creating a separate contact named Twitter I simply added 40404 to my own contact information as a "twitter" number.

I was hoping to be able to say things like: "Tell my Twitter testing 1 2 3" however Siri would always ask me who I wanted to send the message to (i.e. didn't interpret the "my"). For the record, I Have an "iPhone" number listed in my contact info and saying "Tell my iPhone testing 1 2 3" works exactly as expected. Also, saying "Tell <my full name>'s Twitter testing 1 2 3" also works; so clearly Siri has an issue with "my" and "twitter" in the same tell statement.

I ultimately abandoned that effort and instead made a new contact with First/last name "@my_twitter_user Twitter" and nickname "Twitter" (as suggested here). Now it's as simple as "Tell twitter testing 1 2 3" and Siri will confirm by saying "Here's your message to @my_twitter_user Twitter. Ready to send it?"

Pretty neat.


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