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Re: Alert! Alert! Twitter Kills SMS Abroad!

TextMeFree — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:58:46 -0000

There are lots of ways to send free sms. And I should know, I built a directory of free sms sites (yeah, I was bored ;-) )

Admittedly they won't be of use to your Twitter followers, but hey, free sms is free sms! :-)

Re: Alert! Alert! Twitter Kills SMS Abroad!

barristers chambers — Tue, 25 May 2010 05:21:12 -0000

I agree.. excellent writing. Keep up the good work!

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Freeview HD Recorder — Tue, 25 May 2010 05:14:47 -0000

I really like this post.. a real eye opener. Thanks.

Re: Alert! Alert! Twitter Kills SMS Abroad!

Weblog Tip — Sun, 02 May 2010 15:49:14 -0000

Finally I figured out how to send Free SMS http://www.freebiesms.co.uk/. You can also check it out. Try it. This is awesome.

Re: Alert! Alert! Twitter Kills SMS Abroad!

Shazzer — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:47:12 -0000

I only received SMS notifications from a couple of the folks I follow, but I did use the UK SMS service to interact with a number of other tools, like GCal and Toodledo. Having that disappear is going to hurt, no question.

I think Twitter really blew it by discontinuing outgoing UK SMS with no warning and no option for users willing to pay for it. Hell, anyone who was using the UK gateway was already paying international rates to tweet from their mobile phones anyway. I certainly would have been happy to pay my way (and expected to eventually, in fact), but the way this went down makes me question whether or not I'll be able to support the service in the future.