Sokwanele - now on Twitter
Sokwanele is here on Twitter. I’m sure this will be a useful way to keep connected and spread information, but we haven’t quite got the hang of it yet!
We plan to use Twitter to communicate Action Alerts and important developments in Zimbabwe. During the Presidential run-off, we’ll use it more intensively to post up results, news etc.
If you have a Twitter account ( it is free to set one up ) then you can register your mobile phone details with your account, link up with Sokwanele on Twitter, and subscribe to receive our short updates on your mobile phone. We will use Twitter in addition to our blog.
Twitter describes how it works like this:
Twitter really shines when you’re away from your computer.
By hooking up your mobile phone, you can receive updates from those you’re following (or just some people) when you’re waiting in boring lines. And you can send updates, like“OMG, there’s a monkey walking down the street!”—which, lets face it, you’re unlikely to see while you’re indoors.
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.
Also know that you can shut text messages from Twitter off at anytime by replying with “off” (and back on by sending “on”). And you can even specify that it turn off automatically at night.
