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Twitter Mobile Notifications

Need to be clear on whether this applies to all tweets or only direct messages.

It can be helpful to control how incoming messages are handled on a mobile device. For example, messages received from a certain account may trigger a unique ring tone to alert for a critical situation. This can be accomplished using Twitter's mobile notifications.

Direct Messages/Updated Statuses

This is confusing. What does the desktop have to do with settings on my phone?

Twitter allows users to receive mobile notifications on a phone for a number of different reasons. To edit mobile notifications on the Twitter Desktop go to Settings and Privacy / Mobile and then select various text notifications to receive.

For the sake of receiving important alerts from an organizational account the two options that may be of interest are Tweets from people you've enabled for mobile notifications and Direct Messages.

After selecting Tweets from people you've enabled for mobile notifications navigate to the organization page you wish to receive updates from. Once there select the three dots next to Following and select Turn on mobile notifications.

Now you will receive text notifications of any direct messages or updates from the organization or user profile you turned on mobile notifications from.

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Customizing Mobile Notifications

There are multiple ways to customize notifications separate from the default notifications, sounds, or vibrations on a phone, depending on the operating system of that phone.

The first step before proceeding with any of these devices is to save the default Twitter number in your contacts.

iPhone:

  1. Go to the Contacts app (which may be hidden in an automatically created folder) and select on a person's name.
  2. In the contact details, press Edit in the top right corner.
  3. Scroll down until you see Ringtone and Vibration. Tap on either option to select which sound plays and the pattern of vibration for when this contact calls.
  4. Below this, you can repeat the process for messages, by selecting Text Tone and Vibration.

Android:

This process varies slightly depending on the phone's manufacturer and the software installed. In some examples it may also vary depending on whether you are using the default messaging app, or a custom app such as textra.

  1. Go to the Contacts app (which might be labelled People) and select a contact.
  2. In contact details, hit the menu button (three vertical dots in the top-right corner) and choose Edit (this step may be unnecessary on your phone). Edit may also be found in the top-right corner of Contacts.
  3. Scroll down until you see Ringtone, Message tone, and Vibration Pattern (you may have to select the drop down menu View more). Tap it and select a tone to play when they call.