How do you get the tweeted deal announcement as a text on your phone?

@brhfl
@Clark

This command works on the uid of any twitter user. So I use it to follow a local band.

@f00l Thanks for the information. I have a twitter account but I got it to link my Amex to it for their offers… The offers typically suck so I never use the twitter account anymore and thus am tweet-challenged…:)

@Clark
Yeah I don’t tweet or read twitter. And I don’t know how to use the vastness of twitter to any advantage. I don’t know how do distill what matters in twitter so I mostly ignore it.

@f00l I despise Twitter. I see it as a celebrity worship/gossip site, and therefore is garbage. Then there’s the incomplete sentences interspersed with POUND SYMBOLS, and meaningless, out-of-context single words. In other words, complete gobbledygook. Short attention span theatre for wasting vast amounts of time.

@Lurker
I would like some simple idea of twitter trends but am not willing to google them

I understand twitter can be used for effective CS, but have no idea how.

I have no desire to yell at the same time everyone else is yelling. And it’s infamous as a bully zone.

@f00l As someone who is prime bullying material, I’ll just say… it’s a great place to find a community and the strength that comes with it as well. Twitter has been more beneficial to me as far as finding like-minded people and developing a circle of trust than any other online community/social media whatever.

@brhfl
I am not saying twitter is bad. I just don’t know how to distill it into something useful for me. I feel clueless in regard to twitter, not w the basics of tweets and tweeting, but with making twitter valuable to me.

And as for the bullying - I’m glad to hear it isn’t happening on twitter for many people who have been victemized by bullying elsewhere.

@f00l I didn’t think you were saying that, just… felt like I should voice an opinion. And yeah, it’s definitely a hot spot for bullying, dogpiling, doxing… but you can also find a ton of support from a disparate group of strangers there. There’s a lot of good in the Twitterverse.

@Clark how do you like your pixel so far?

@communist, its a huge upgrade from the Nexus 5. The screen is the best I have ever had on a cell phone but I assume comparable to all the other Samsung AMOLED screens out there. Phone seams really fast to respond to any commands I give through speech or touch. It feels like a quality piece of equipment, its very thin but still feels solid/heavy even though I know its not heavy (I hope I convey this feeling correctly).

The thing that really impressed me was the transfer of all my apps and stuff from the old phone to the new, I had no idea Android did that. It copied all my apps and most of my settings via the cloud and it only took an hour or two to get it done. I am not a cell phone junky though and don’t have my entire life on my cell phone so there was not 64GB of data to transfer or even close to that.

Anyway, I am really happy with the Pixel thus far.

@Clark No problem, glad it worked. That 40404 SMS gateway was how Twitter started… kind of shocking that it still works, hah!

@Clark

Android introduced app restore in Marshmallow with API 23. The fact that the layout in Google Now Launcher also gets restored is such a time saver.

The downside is that app data doesn’t get restored, so for apps which don’t save to the cloud, it’s a bit upsetting.

Normally for me this wouldn’t be an issue, but I decided that I am not rooting my 5X yet.

There’s one app which I would have preferred to transfer the app data, btu the root-free method didn’t work for me, and the dev doesn’t want to start implementing cloud save since he would have to support cross-platform between Google Play Games and Apple Game Center, so I have to start from scratch.

Not sure why I tagged you specifically, but I’ll let @Ignorant figure it out and take the blame when I realize that the answer was simple because of the first two paragraphs.

@PlacidPenguin
Didn’t know that about google now. Thanks.

@f00l

Np.

It’s great because I don’t have to remember to resave the 5 Meh pages which I have on a folder on my homescreen.

@PlacidPenguin
IF? Is that ITTT?

@f00l

Yeah.

The only downside (which is irrelevant since a text wouldn’t allow it) is that since the product image is a new URL every day, I can’t set the recipe to show the product image.

And I’m not even talking about the product variations, just the first image.

@f00l Interactive Fiction? Is that Interactive Tell a Tall Tale?

@brhfl
ITTT

I should have written IFTTT

IF Then, Then That.

A simple way to automate simple things. Works well w smartphones. Not hard to get a handle on.

https://ifttt.com/

@f00l Dude… If THIS then that.

Totally awesome and extremely useful site tho, regardless of what the letters stand for.

@baqui63
I am an idiot. And iphone autocorrect helps me do very much.

I did have it near right. And then Apple helped me. And I forgot to proofread carefully. In my defense, sometimes the phone appears to wait for the save before changing the text. Or so I imagine. Or I lie about it. Or I just make up excuses.

Yeah, idiot here.

@Clark @f00l

Clarification: I get the notifications to my Huawei Watch.