Derby County on Twitter

It’s quite evident that this website isn’t updated enough with the toils and tribulations of our beloved “Super” Rams. Time is a major factor in this and a previous call for contributors fell flat. So I had to come up with a different plan. Enter Twitter.

If you’ve not yet heard of Twitter, it is another social network, similar to Facebook, but with a different angle – it is all about your status. Twitter asks the question what are you doing now? and you respond, similar to the status feature of Facebook, with something like is writing on superrams.com.

One fundamental difference with Twitter though is the fact it is platform-independent – that is you can use the service from whatever device you prefer. You can use Twitter via SMS on your mobile, there is a mobile version of the website, you can even get it interacting with your IM client using the Jabber protocol (if you’ve got a Gmail account, that is also Jabber-enabed). Some nice developers from around the world have also created small applications to sit on your computer that are solely there for interacting with Twitter.

So there’s no denying the fact Twitter is a useful application but what the hell has all this got to do with Super Rams? Well, how about getting Derby County news direct to your mobile, as it happens, and all for free? That sounds good right? It’s quite easy to do – just follow these instructions:

1. Sign up on Twitter using the relatively simple registration form
2. Make sure you add your mobile details to your devices
3. Pop on over to twitter.com/derbycounty and hit the Follow button
4. Hit the Device Updates link and check the Device Buttons On radio button
5. That’s it. Every time the news is updated on the BBC or Evening Telegraph, you will get a SMS alert.

Currently, you get an allowance of 250 text message updates a month but that should be plenty for the news alerts from Derby County.

Go and sign up – its free so what have you got to lose?

Update: news from the official Derby County website is now included in the updates thanks to some magic by Dapper.