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Twitter sees the light

Started by Ewan · 10 months ago

I’m getting lots of emails, IMs and, funnily enough, direct Twitter messages, from people telling me that Twitter is stopping updates by text message in the UK.

Well obviously.

The UK operators are very clear on how they do business. If you want to send a text, you pay to do so.

So somebody’s got to pay. [...] ... Continue reading »

6 comments

  • Chris & Helen at LG

    10 months ago

    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?
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  • nacho

    10 months 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
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  • Ewan

    10 months 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.
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  • Samantha

    10 months 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.
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  • James Whatley

    10 months 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).
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  • Edmund

    10 months 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.
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