14 DAY TRIAL // Study Breaks is running a piece on social networks used by teenagers. The student-centric magazine says “Siri doesn’t want to help the user with Twitter or Facebook at all,” and that “she has the nerve to actually say she cannot help use social media and will wait for their next response.”
“[Yet] social media hooligans always find a way to reach out audience and networks one way or another,” according to the publication.
Indeed, Siri doesn’t help out with posting status updates and tweets, and for good reason too – security.
But “hooligans” (tech savvy blokes, nothing more) made Siri their slave.
They went to facebook.com and twitter.com, grabbed the short codes for their country, and then saved those codes in their iPhone’s Address Book as Facebook and Twitter.
Al they had to do from there was tell Siri to “Send a text to Facebook,” which ended up appearing as a status update on the world’s social network.
So, as it turns out, those “hooligans” are nothing short of ingenious. These people have a talent for workarounds, which doesn't exactly mean they're bullying anyone.
“Anything that’s doable via text can be done via Siri: follow, unfollow, turn notifications off and on, RT or retweet, send messages--and the list goes on,” Study Breaks reveals.
“The bottom line is that social media never sleeps, and the world is becoming more and more mobile."
"Siri really makes life on the go a whole lot easier. This is not intended to be used nor does it work as a HootSuite, Seesmic or TweetDeck management tool, but it does enable the user to become a part of conversations online without ever having to touch the keypad,” according to the magazine.