Charge Your Phones, Follow Sandy on Twitter (Even Without Twitter)


Philly Mag editors are tweeting Hurricane Sandy news via @phillymag and @thephillypost. Follow us for updates. If the power goes out, and you aren’t on Twitter, you can still follow media tweets on your cell phone.

How to get texts updates if you don’t have a Twitter account:
– Text “Follow [username]” to 40404. you will start receiving Tweets from that user on your device. Don’t use @ before the username. …
– To stop getting updates text STOP, LEAVE, or OFF to 40404.
– To turn notifications back on, text ON to 40404 [Wall Street Journal]

So to get Twitter updates from the Post, text “Follow ThePhillyPost” to 40404. You will start getting our tweets via SMS.