blog.twitter.com - 8/14/2008
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Let's start with the bad news. Beginning today, Twitter is no longer delivering outbound SMS over our UK number. If you have been receiving SMS updates from Twitter via +44 762 480 1423, you'll notice that they've stopped and you may want to explore some of the alternatives we're suggesting.
Note: Updating via our UK number remains fully supported and these changes do not affect users in ...
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UK Twitter lovers lament demise of SMS reception, start Facebook campaign
Tech Digest —
... for something useful while mobile, and have placed reliance on receiving updates via text message: Twitter has killed the service. Dead. With no warning, they announced that "Twitter is no longer delivering outbound SMS over [the] UK number"... ...
UK Twitter Users Go Cold Turkey; US Still Online
Today @ PC World —
... b_twitter_uk.jpg U.K. Twitter users woke up this morning to an e-mail message from Biz Stone, Twitter co-founder, saying that they will no longer be able to receive outbound SMS over a U.K. phone number. The latest changes do not affect users in the United States, Canada, or India, where Twitter says it can still "provide full incoming and outgoing SMS service without passing along operator fees." Twitter's cost of passing along messages had simply gotten too high, Stone's message says. Even if Twitter capped outgoing SMS messages to 250 per week for every Twitter user tied ...
Twitter deja de enviar SMS a usuarios del Reino Unido
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... En el blog de Twitter se acaba de anunciar que la plataforma dejará de enviar SMS con las actualizaciones de los usuarios del Reino Unido y que eso se debe al altísimo costo que genera ese servicio, aproximadamente unos USD 1.000 anuales por usuario promedio!, y lo interesante es escuchar, en primera persona y en su propio blog, cuando dicen que: “hemos llegado a un punto en que lo inteligente es reducir nuestros costos y encontrar un enfoque diferente para el negocio“. OUCH! ...
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