With the increasing amount of subscribers to the free service from Twitter enabling millions of people around the world to spread a specific message to a large amount of people at one time, specifically those who follow the sender on Twitter, the company have made such decision to stop sending outbound smses/updates through the number +447624801423.
"The number which i'm familiar with for the past few months, among my friends, sending random updates as well as providing some entertainment to my daily life.Wednesday, August 13, 2008
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.
Its gone for now. ='(
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It pains us to take this measure. However, we need to avoid placing undue burden on our company and our service. Even with a limit of 250 messages received per week, it could cost Twitter about $1,000 per user, per year to send SMS outside of Canada, India, or the US. It makes more sense for us to establish fair billing arrangements with mobile operators than it does to pass these high fees on to our users.
Twitter users/followers have to count on alternative methods to receive updates.
View the alternatives here.
Sigh, Malaysia is just a small little country in the globe, the company are currently negotiating with many telco. companies in many different countries and i guess Malaysia won't be in the top priority list huh??
We Twitter users in Malaysia will still receive updates though, but only through web then. Not through mobile phones. ='(
I just hope that this will only be a temporary situation.
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6 comments:
haiz...
i also dunno what to say after they made this decision lah!
i wrote an blog post also on this... need to change to PacMee? i will say nope!
No reason to panic lah dude.. there's always Pacmee plus it's cheaper anyway
T__T
> joshuatly : cant blame them though.. saw ur blog post as well.. ha
> boss stewie : lolx many ppl told me that including yeehou.. haha but pacmee only for maxis and hotlink subscribers.. i have frens who uses other number.. =(
> schmae : ><
nowonder i din receive any sms from twitter.. ish ish =(
> hon mun : yea... =(
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