Canadians get Vancouver Olympics Text Alerts

Text messaging and mobile marketing companyTxT2Look has created a text message alert service and mobile website for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics beginning on February 12.

By sending the text message OLYMPICS to 77788, anyone in Canada can get instant real time alerts sent to their mobile phone. They can then choose to receive alerts for any of three categories including Canadian medals, gold medals for all countries or game by game results for Team Canada men's hockey.

People can also access the alerts by logging onto the mobile website with their phones at www.TxT2Look.com/Olympics. And a third feature of the service, people can text CANADA, GOLD or HOCKEY to 77788 at anytime to receive instant results.

[via Press release]

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