How To Send Direct Messages In Twitter To People Who Don’t Follow You? [Hacks And Mods]
Posted By Keith Dsouza On September 20, 2008 @ 10:09 pm In Hacks And Mods | 38 Comments
Twitter [1] 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 derivetheir 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.
Update: This trick might no longer work
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[1] Twitter: http://techie-buzz.com/tag/twitter
[2] Hack Tip From Tech Spikes: http://www.techspikes.com/2008/09/twitter-hack-send-direct-messages-to-non-followers/
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