Post to Twitter with Siri

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As of the writing of this book, Siri can’t tweet for you, but there is a workaround: First, you’ll need to go to your Contacts app and create a new contact with “Twitter” as the first name and “404-04” as the phone number. Next, send a text message to that number with the word “Start.” You’ll get a reply asking for your Twitter username (or for you to sign up), then a reply asking for your password, then finally a reply asking you to confirm that you want to use Twitter on your iPhone. Once you send that last reply, SMS will be enabled on your Twitter account. Now, you can just say to Siri, “Tell Twitter [whatever you ...

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