How To Send Direct Messages In Twitter To People Who Don’t Follow You? [Hacks And Mods]
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Twitter does not allow users to send direct messages to people who do not follow you, though that may act as a deterrent to stop spamming, direct messages are much more better than sending a message via a reply.
Tech Spikes has a nice hack that will allow you to send a direct message to people who do not follow you in twitter.
To send a DM to a non-follower in Twitter, you have to “derive” their DM URL to create a DM message. Here’s the syntax
http://twitter.com/direct_messages/create/twitterusername
Replace the twitterusername with the twitter id of the person to whom you wish to send the DM and you can send a direct message to a user without them following you.
Twilight Fairy
September 23rd, 2008 at 1:32 pm #
I would appreciate if you give credit to the “original” source rather than from where you saw this post. If you would see the post on techspike, you would see that Narayan saw this hack on my blog.
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Owen Blacker
September 26th, 2008 at 4:32 am #
It doesn’t work; they’ve fixed their bug.
“You cannot send messages to users who are not following you.”
Thankfully.
If I wanted someone to be able to DM me and to be able to see their tweets, I’d follow them. They can @-message me instead and I’ll see it on http://search.twitter.com/search?q=owenblacker
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SpRnch
May 24th, 2009 at 7:47 am #
Thank gosh this is fixed
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jas
June 18th, 2009 at 7:14 pm #
this is not hacking
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Christian
July 27th, 2009 at 11:40 am #
With respect, I don’t know why you’d post this loophole on your site, because they only people who would find value in it are people who wanted to spam users on this site. Am I wrong?
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Nick Wood
September 26th, 2009 at 3:13 am #
Tried this at 8.14am on the 26th sept 09 and no longer works !
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