Twitter SMS shutdown explained

Posted by mno on Thursday August 14, 2008 @10:24AM
from the thenextweb.org dept.

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

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Re:Twitter SMS shutdown explained by Zeromus on Thursday August 14, 2008 @10:41AM (#276132)

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.

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Re:Twitter SMS shutdown explained by johnrob on Thursday August 14, 2008 @11:14AM (#276164)

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.

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Re:Twitter SMS shutdown explained by thenextweb on Thursday August 14, 2008 @11:25AM (#276181)

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

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Re:Twitter SMS shutdown explained by t0pj on Thursday August 14, 2008 @12:53PM (#276255)

"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?

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Re:Twitter SMS shutdown explained by thenextweb on Thursday August 14, 2008 @02:41PM (#276347)

Hmm no, what kind of browser do you use? Send me a screenshot, if possible, at [email protected]

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Re:Twitter SMS shutdown explained by josefresco on Thursday August 14, 2008 @12:37PM (#276243)

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?

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