This is part of the known issue here http://status.twitter.com/post/276305097/known-issue-misdirected-tweets
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Scott Haneda <talkli...@newgeo.com> wrote: > My G/F is getting the same thing. She has DM's set to go via SMS, but she > also gets tweets as SMS on a daly basis, at some pretty unruly hours. These > are just normal tweets, by people she is following. Some, if not most, are > not following her back. > > I do not have this problem, and follow much larger base of people than she > does. However, I also follow the same people she is following, which are > somehow able to get a normal tweet to go over SMS to her. > > Is this a known issue, is there some way to make it stop? It is important > to get DM's via SMS, but it is also important to not get woken up at 4AM > from @someone_i_just_follow. > -- > Scott * If you contact me off list replace talklists@ with scott@ * > > On Dec 9, 2009, at 3:02 PM, Kee Hinckley wrote: > >> I am receiving spurious SMS notifications for tweets sent by people I am >> following, but do not have notifications turned on for. These are *not* >> retweets, I've even asked a couple of the original senders to check and see >> if the item had been retweeted, and the answer was no. Furthermore, I only >> have my account (@nazgul) set to receive text messages for about four users, >> and none of them retweeted these messages. Possibly related, I have a friend >> who turned off *all* phone notifications over a day ago, and is still >> getting random new text messages from people she follows but didn't set to >> send her notificationqs. >> >> Examples: >> >> I confirmed that these were not retweeted by anyone for whom I get >> notifications (or in one case, by anyone at all). >> >> http://twitter.com/stevegarfield/status/6463021810 >> http://twitter.com/daddyclaxton/status/6463935419 >> >> Others I haven't had a chance to investigate, but which it seems highly >> unlikely were retweeted by anyone who sends me notifications. >> http://twitter.com/kevinmarks/status/6500306267 >> http://twitter.com/stoweboyd/status/6497224194 > > -- ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv
