The Twitter Followers You Didn’t Even Know You Had

So Twitter’s rolled out a new feature to beef up its SMS functionality. Now, immediately, this sort of begs ‘why’, as those with a smartphone tend to use a Twitter app, and those without don’t really use phone Twitter at all, but after having read how this works, it would not prove unhandy for the unfortunately-phoned gentleman. Seriously, can you imagine me tweeting up a storm on this thing?

But the new ‘Fast Follow’ (which sounds like a basketball term to me, oddly enough) is unique in that it allows a user not to have to sign up for Twitter in order to receive tweets. Simply text “follow Username” to whatever your country’s Twitter number is (probably 40404) and bask in the tide of inconsequential information. Great for unsmartphoned Twitterphobes who never even learned to T9. Apparently, that’s still a demographic in 2010.

If you’re going to check this out, you should probably stick to worthwhile accounts that provide useful information. For instance, don’t fast follow me – your disappointment will be as legend, and your incoming text bill will be stupid enormous. Follow the Dalai Lama, or Shaq. Shaq is full of wisdom, like how many different ways you can fit ‘Shaq’ into a sentence.