Twitter SMS shutdown explained

http://thenextweb.org/2008/08/14/what-made-twitter-do-it-the-essential-difference-between-sms-handling-in-europe-and-us/

by mno • 18 years ago

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Zeromus• 18 years ago

I use Twitterrific on the iPhone and SMS. I like SMS's because they're pushed to the phone, so I know straight away when somebody tweets. I read/tweet from Twitterrific. If (when?) Twitterrific can do push notification i'll be fine with losing SMS, but until then i'll just have to check for new tweets myself. I'm from Australia, one of the countries that just lost SMS's.

johnrob• 18 years ago

Using email instead of SMS is not a terrible idea. I wonder how many twitter users (overseas) know how to check email from their phones.

thenextweb2• 18 years ago

Looks like they are finding out. TwitterMail added a lot of new users in the last few hours: http://twittermail.com/

t0pj• 18 years ago

"TwitterMail added a lot of new users in the last few hours"

So many users that all I get to see at that URL is an orange rectangle on a white background?

josefresco• 18 years ago

When will SMS die, can you imagine if your ISP charged you for IMing but let you surf the web (and do everything else) under your data plan?

Twitter SMS shutdown explained

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