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Twitter app. The website won't give you notifications.
I've stopped using the official app ages ago, but if there is no notification settings, you can turn of auto-refresh altogether and just refresh when you open the app. You'll still get the SMS that way since its a feature independent of the app.
I can't say if they changed the settings since I last used it, but just go into settings and look for "refresh feed" and uncheck that.