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A very common question we hear is “Who are my followers?” or “Who’s following me?”. Generally, the broader question is “How do I find new people?”. Ofcourse, you can see who is following you from your web profile but more than 90% of our users are mobile only (SMS) so this question is popped up more often.

One of our core philosophy is that whatever we create for the web, we mirror on the mobile as well. This means that every feature we design for the web, it needs to work well for Mobile. Which can prove to be quite challenging considering the limitations posed by SMS.

After a lot of designing, we finally released features to address these questions. The first is the List command.

Lists, Lists, Lists!

Texting LIST to your shortcode helps you retrieving a summary of your social network and tells you the actions you’ve done or you want to do on your fellow Pringers. By simply replying to the LIST menu, it may tell you your followers, or the people you follow or the people who you have blocked. Sending LIST to your short-code return you the following menu.

Ap kia dekhna chahtay hain. Matlooba number bhaijain:

1. Apke followers
2. Wo jinhain aap follow kar rahay hain
3. Wo jinhain ap nai block kar rakha hai

Once you have this menu in front of you replying with 1,2, or 3 would simply get what you are looking for. If a Pringer Ali is looking for the people who he’s following he replies with 1. Likewise for people he is following he can reply with 2 and 3 for those he wants to block. This is the search results page. In response to choice no 1 or 2 for example he’d get:

Matlooba number bhaijain:

1. Amir
2. Ghafoor

Here again Pring expects you to reply with a number. So if Ali wants to know more about Shaheen he can reply with 3 where he’s be returned with a menu that asks him what exactly does he want to know about Shaheen. This is the actions menu

Matlooba number bhaijain:

1. Whois Shaheen
2. Stats Shaheen
3. Block Shaheen
4. Unfollow Shaheen
5. Pichle Results

The WHOIS command tells you a short description about Shaheen. Likewise replying with 2, 3 or 4 would use the STATS, BLOCK & UNFOLLOW commands respectively on the user Shaheen. And in the end it asks you whether you want to return to the “actions menu” (Replying with 1) or the “search-page results” (Replying with 2).

So if you want to scan your friends on Pring and then take specific actions, LIST is the command that would help you in doing that. It helps in making things for you much more visible at Pring. Ofcourse, all of these menus are in English if your interface is set to English.

Search for Pringers

Finding your friends on Pring is easy now. All you have to do is use the SEARCH command. Send SEARCH name to your shortcode and you are returned with all the Pringer IDs containing your required search. For example if a Pring user Ali wants to search for a friend of his going by the alias Goofy, he’d type in SEARCH Goofy. In return he’s given the list of all the people that have the word “Goofy” in their aliases.

Reply with no#:

1. Goofy
2. Ali_Goofy
3. goofy_007

On replying with the number the user is taken to the actions menu. For example the reply 1 would return:

Matlooba number bhaijain:

1. Whois Goofy
2. Stats Goofy
3. Block Goofy
4. Follow Goofy

Easy enough to find someone on pring now? Get started then!

by Arslan Burney

This entry was posted on Friday, January 7th, 2011 at 8:57 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.