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Changes to Twitter’s SMS Service

August 14, 2008 · Comments 

Just this morning, I got an announcement email from Biz Stone, the Co-founder of Twitter, saying that there’ll be changes on the SMS updates service on Twitter.

So what’s the good news and bad news? The message started with the bad one: Twitter will no longer deliver outbound SMS over its UK number! Yes, it’s the very feature why some organizations applied Twitter for their system of communication by just letting their members subscribe to their main account and the Twitter SMS updates shall be delivered to their members for free.

There was actually a bit of good news that followed it – Twitter shall be starting some local SMS numbers in countries throughout Europe. Well, I guess the good news was not enough to cover for the terrible bad news. Whilst it’s true that this change of service was not really unexpected (because there’s no free lunch all the time), I just hope there’ll be a Twitter SMS gateway specifically made for the Philippines or perhaps phTwitters can do something on their service to make that feature available again.

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