How To Find Your Twitter Short Code or Long Code

Table of Contents:

Short Codes
Long Codes
How To Tweet with Your Phone If Your Carrier Is Not Listed

If you add your phone to Twitter, you can update anywhere, anytime by simply sending us a text message! Once your phone is verified, you can start sending (and in many countries start receiving) updates instantly! Depending on where you are, you may have a local number. You can send a text message to any of these numbers and it will post directly to your Twitter profile, and be sent to all of your followers:

Short Codes

We currently support 2-way (sending and receiving) Twitter SMS via short codes for the below listed countries.

Get started by sending START or SIGNUP to any of these Twitter numbers:

Afghanistan: 40404 (Roshan)
Argentina: 89338 (Movistar, Personal, Nextel customers. Nextel only supports sending updates to Twitter)
Aruba: 176 (Digicel)
Antigua: 176 (Digicel customers)
Anguilla: 176 (Digicel customers)
Australia: 0198089488 (Telstra customers)
Bahrain 88000 (VIVA), 98555 (Zain customers)
Bangladesh: 9594(Citycell customers)
Belarus: 40404 (life:) customers)
Bermuda: 176 (Digicel customers)
Brasil: 40404 (TIM andNextel customers)
Bhutan 40404 (B-mobile)
Bolivia: 40404 (Viva and Tigo customers)
Bonaire: 176 (Digicel customers)
Canada: 21212
Colombia: 40404 (Tigo customers)
Cambodia: 40404 (Cellcard, Smart Mobile)
Cameroon: 8711(MTN)
Curacao: 176 (Digicel)
Democratic Republic Congo: 40404 (Tigo customers)
Denmark: 40404 (Telmore)
Egypt: 4040 (Vodafone customers), 2222 (Mobinil customers)
El Salvador: 40404 (Digicel and Tigo customers)
Fiji: 40404 (Digicel and Vodafone customers)
Georgia: 40404 (Beeline and Geocell customers)
Grenada: 176 (Digicel customers)
Guatemala: 40404 (Tigo and Movistar customers)
Guyana: 1443 (Digicel customers)
Haiti: 40404 (Digicel customers)
Honduras: 40404 (Digicel customers)
India: 53000 (Bharti Airtel, Reliance, Videocon, and TATA DOCOMO customers)
Indonesia: 89887 (AXIS, 3, Telkomsel, XL Axiata, Bakari Telecom, TelkomFlexi, and Indosat)
Iraq: 71117 (Zain); 1432 (Asiacell) and +9988 (KOREK)
Ireland: 51210 (Vodafone, Meteor Mobile customers)
Isle of Man: 89887 (Manx customers)
Italy: 4880804 (Wind customers), +3424486444 (Vodafone customers)
Jamaica: 176 (Digicel customers)
Jordan: 90903 (Zain customers); 98788 (Umniah customers)
Kazakhstan: 4040 (Beeline, Kcell/Activ customers); 40404 (Airtel customers)
Kenya: 89888 (Safaricom customers); 40404 (Airtel customers)
Kuwait: 89887 (Zain customers)
Korea: #1234 (LG U+ customers)
Kyrgyzstan: 4040 (Megacom, Beeline Customers)
Macedonia: 40404 (VIP customers)
Madagascar: 40404 (VIP)
Malaysia: 28933 (Maxis, Tune Talk, DiGi)
Maldives: 4040 (Wataniya customers)
Mexico: 6464 (Telcel customers, only supports sending updates to Twitter)
Morocco: 404 (inwi)
Nauru: 40404 (Digicel customers)
New Zealand: 8987 (Vodafone and Telecom NZ customers)
Nicaragua: 89887 (Movistar)
Nigeria: 40404 (Zain and MTN customers ); 20644 (Glo Mobile customers)
Pakistan: 40404 (Mobilink, Zong, Ufone, and Telenor customers)
Palestinian Territories: 40404 (Wataniya customers); 37373 (Jawwal customers)
Panama: 3010 (Digicel customers)
Papua New Guinea: 40404 (Digicel customers)
Paraguay: 40404 (Personal)
Romania: 89338 (Vodafone and Cosmote customers)
Russia: 8080 (Beeline customers)
Rwanda: 3434 (MTN customers)
Saudi Arabia: 840404 (STC customers)
Saudi Arabia: 710001 (Zain customers)
Saudi Arabia: 606040 (Mobily customers)
Serbia: 40404 (Vip mobile, mt:s, and Telenor customers)
Seychelles: 9695 (Airtel customers)
Sri Lanka: 40404 (Dialog, Telecom Mobitel, and Etisalat Lanka customers)
St. Lucia: 176 (Digicel customers)
St. Vincent: 176 (Digicel customers)
St. Kitts: 176 (Digicel customers)
Sudan: 40404 (Zain customers)
Sweden: 71017(3 customers)
Tonga: 40404 (Digicel customers)
Trinidad and Tobago: 40404 (Digicel customers)
Turkey: 2444 (Vodafone and Telsim customers)
Uganda: 179 (MTN customers)
UK: 86444 (Vodafone, Orange, 3 and O2 customers)
Ukraine: 40404 (life:) customers)
United Arab Emirates: 335640404 (Zain)
Uruguay: 40404 (Antel)
US: 40404
Uzbekistan: 89338 (Beeline, Ucell customers)
Venezuela: 89338 (Movistar)
Yemen: 7070 (MTV)

Long Codes

Good news ! If your country and carrier is not listed here you can use one of the following one-way long code to post messages to Twitter.

• UK : +447624800379 (Subscribers may be charged international messages rates)
• GERMANY : +4915705000021 (Subscribers may be charged regular/local SMS rate)
• FINLAND : +3584573950042 (Subscribers may be charged regular/local SMS rate)

However, all subscribers using this code may be charged international messages rates.
 

To add your phone to your Twitter profile via long code:

1. Send a text to the correct long code (listed above) with the word START.
2. Wait 2 minutes.
3. Next, send your username to the Twitter long-code. Do not use @ or quotes. Send your username ONLY, like so: hotdogsladies
4. Wait 2 minutes after sending your username.
5. Next, send your password to the same number. This is case sensitive, so be sure you are sending your password correctly.
6. Wait 2 minutes.
7. Finally, send the word OK to the same number.

To test if you have correctly added your phone, send a "test" Tweet to your long code number (just like sending a normal text message). Then, log in to www.twitter.com via the web to make sure your Tweets shows up on your Profile. If so, you have correctly added your phone. Once again, you will not be able to receive any texts to confirm phone activation!

How To Tweet with Your Phone If Your Carrier Is Not Listed

If your carrier is not listed above, first see if you are able to use one of the one-way long codes to post messages to Twitter. We're working on getting more local short codes for other places, and we'll update this list as they become available. If you travel out of the country, check with your mobile provider to see if they route text messages to local short codes. Follow @twittermobile for more updates. Thanks!

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