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Changes for Some SMS Users - Good and Bad News

14 August 2008

Let’s start with the bad news. Beginning today, Twitter is no longer delivering outbound SMS over our UK number.

Twitter needs a business model, stat.

In fact, I’m surprised they didn’t take this opportunity to roll out a similar ‘pro’ scheme to Flickr, where you can get SMS updates and maybe no API rate limits for $29.99/year. I think for twitter it could really work, especially considering that – due to the high API usage amongst the userbase – traditional banner/adwords based advertising models may well not work that well. It still mystifies me that they haven’t tried that yet though – surely it wouldn’t hurt?

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14 August 2008