Okey Chopper Jockeys you can now stay connected with the 2009 Smokeout via Twitter. We will post updates that can be sent to your phone or computer. Twitter is a free service that lets you keep in touch.

Twitter is a snap to use. Use the following steps and you will be up and running in minutes.

1 Sign up for A Free Twitter Account -http://twitter.com.

2 Go to our Twitter Account at http://twitter.com/thesmokeout.

3 Below the Smokeout icon click “Follow”. You are now receiving the Smokeout Feed at your Twitter account on your computer.

4 Get Twitter sent to your phone - Click on the “Settings” menu in the upper right side of the scene. Then click on “Devices” menu choice to set up your account.

WHY USE TWITTER?

• * Eating soup? Find out where the good places are to eat.
• * Running late? Let’em know you a throttled up and coming in.
• * Partying? Your friends may want to join you.

GETTING SMOKEOUT UPDATES VIA PHONE

Twitter with SMS -Sending updates to Twitter while you’re away from your computer makes things much more interesting. It’s all done through text messages (aka “SMS”), which you probably use all the time anyway, so there’s not much to learn.

Twitter doesn’t charge anything for this, but be sure to know what your text plan looks like with your wireless carrier.

ABOUT TWITTER

Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users’ updates known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 bytes in length. Updates are displayed on the user’s profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends (delivery to everyone being the default). Users can send and receive updates via the Twitter website, SMS, RSS (receive only), or through applications such as Tweetie, Twitterrific, Twitterfon and Feedalizr. The service is free to use over the web, but using SMS may incur phone services provider fees.