Follow us on Twitter!

You’ve heard about getting Orientation updates sent to your phone, but we thought you might need some direction for getting our Orientation tweets.  If you’re a Twitter user, just start following @alleghenyorient!

If you would like Orientation updates sent to your phone, follow these easy steps:

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1. Compose a new text to 40404

2. Write follow alleghenyorient in the body of your text

3. Send the message (ok this step was kind of obvious but I took the picture so I’m going to post it!)

4. If you’re already getting text updates to your phone from Twitter, you’ll receive this message back

5. If you don’t get Twitter updates to your phone already, you’ll get this message

6. Reply to that message with signup

7.  You’ll receive this back from Twitter

8. Reply with a username. Any username at all.  Here’s what we used

9. Once you text them a username, you’ll get this message back

10. Here’s a sample tweet you’ll get from alleghenyorient


Throughout the summer we’ll be tweeting updates as we get ready for you to come on campus.  During Orientation we use these text updates to give away prizes, let you know about venue changes, and remind you about important events.  You and your parents should also consider following @alleghenycol on Twitter.  You can know what’s happening with the College by following all the same steps listed above, but texting follow alleghenycol instead of alleghenyorient.