New Facebook app lets your friends text you from your profile

If you don’t have access to Facebook’s integrated text notification service — and you don’t, if you’re living outside of America — then this new application, ‘SMS Notification‘, is for you.

I got a note from developer Tom Whettem to let me know they’d gone live. He writes:

Up until now, the only users that had this option were located in the US on Facebook approved list of network operators, now with SMS Notification you can receive all your notifications straight to your phone whether you are in UK, Australia, USA or any of the other international mobile networks that SMS Notification supports.

When you install SMS notification registering your mobile could not be simpler. You get an iPhone for your profile page from which your friend can send you free SMS messages and other options like the ability to send image or animation pokes as well.

In order to start receiving your Facebook notifications, you will need to add a new email address to your Facebook account. The email address is simply yourphonenumber@smsnotificication.co.uk. You do not have to worry about not receiving your notifications to your original inbox as SMS Notification automatically forwards these for you after sending you an SMS. Users can also use their new email address to receive emails to their mobile phone by SMS.

The iPhone on your profile page looks pretty neat — that’s a screenshot of Tom’s profile one above.

The mini-feed integration is rather swish – here’s an example of that on Tom’s profile:

Nifty.

Oh, and by the way Tom, if you can knock up a method of using two-way SMS services with this, you could enter the Esendex Developer competition and be in line to win a grand!