Twitter’s mobile demise September 14, 2008
Posted by CLibra in Mobile, Twitter.trackback
The impact of Twitter cancelling UK SMS deliveries hadn’t really sunk in until recently. I only used the deliveries to check up on how people were doing in the Twitterverse; I hadn’t realised the true scope of it.
Only after it was cancelled, did it hit me – the true capabilities of Twitter’s mobile service. People had blogged about interesting uses of Twitter via SMS, and I wanted to try it out, but couldn’t.
This is what I lost out on:
- Cheap International SMS, by routing it through Twitter.
- Posting events to Google Calendar on the go, because I’d forget to by the time I get home.
- Checking & Updating tasks on RTM, for the same reason as above.
- Setting Timers, so I’d be alerted via text.
This is bad, Twitter, but I do sympathise. The costs mounted up, and you can’t keep everyone happy, I mean, alternatives would have been to use Ads on webpages or charge users for SMS, but honestly? That would have irritated me.
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