It's a shame but as you say - texts cost money and someone has to pay. Judging from the buzz on Twitter this morning lots of people are suggesting they launch a paid-for premium service to enable texts - I wonder why they didn't think of it?
nacho
· 1 year ago
Right but why the UK? Surely SMS costs elsewhere are higher
What's the UK penetration of twitter? Not at normob level I'm sure
Get the twiteratti pay for it
Ok, let's move on, any other twitter-like services? I mean with SMS integration
Ewan
· 1 year ago
Because no one will pay for it...
It's all very well getting woken up by a Tweet saying 'Just ate a brilliant cupcake' -- i.e. something highly irrelevant. But when you've had to pay for the privilege yourself, that's where the wheels fall off.
Samantha
· 1 year ago
I'm on Twitter, with quite a few followers, and I follow a few (BBC News mainly), and I've never recieved an outgoing message from them.
I'm not too hung up on the idea of a premium Twitter, and for the normobs out there (even myself), I wouldn't ever invest in it. I can't say anyone's Twitterings are that important to me.
I'll be interested to see what comes of this though.
Samantha.
James Whatley
· 1 year ago
As I said on Twitter just a little while ago (in response to Nacho actually) re: The apparent 'Death' of Twitter:
"The End of Twitter" ? Just because we've stopped getting SMS? Yeah, right. Like it matters. They have a phrase in the US that goes:
"Saying you're big in the UK is like saying you're the most popular guy in New Jersey"
- Bad news for brits, but not for Biz (Stone - Founder of Twitter).
Edmund
· 1 year ago
Inevitable, I guess - no such thing as a free lunch. But there's no way I'm going to pay to have news pushed to me (which is how I used Twitter, in conjunction with Twitterfeed's clever RSS tweeting system), when I can always go and fetch it for free when the fancy takes me.
All Comments
What's the UK penetration of twitter? Not at normob level I'm sure
Get the twiteratti pay for it
Ok, let's move on, any other twitter-like services? I mean with SMS integration
It's all very well getting woken up by a Tweet saying 'Just ate a brilliant
cupcake' -- i.e. something highly irrelevant. But when you've had to pay
for the privilege yourself, that's where the wheels fall off.
I'm not too hung up on the idea of a premium Twitter, and for the normobs out there (even myself), I wouldn't ever invest in it. I can't say anyone's Twitterings are that important to me.
I'll be interested to see what comes of this though.
Samantha.
"The End of Twitter" ? Just because we've stopped getting SMS? Yeah, right. Like it matters. They have a phrase in the US that goes:
"Saying you're big in the UK is like saying you're the most popular guy in New Jersey"
- Bad news for brits, but not for Biz (Stone - Founder of Twitter).