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mdy replied on May 12, 2008 16:36 to the problem "SMS stopped" in Twitter:

It's interesting that the problem was solved for so many people by simply sending a tweet. In my case, it was always by sending ON or by re-verifying my phone.

packtdavidb replied on May 12, 2008 16:23 to the problem "SMS stopped" in Twitter:

I had this problem too. O2, UK, pay as you go.

I deleted and started again with my phone last week -- worked for a couple of days but then sometime Saturday or Sunday it stopped.

Seems to go wrong at the weekend, which is annoying because that's when I'm away from the web and need SMS the most! (And can't get to web to do the delete & start over thing.)

KeithR replied on May 12, 2008 12:16 to the problem "SMS stopped" in Twitter:

I have deleted and re-added my mobile but it stops after a few hours - its annoying!

mirae replied on May 12, 2008 11:06 to the problem "SMS stopped" in Twitter:

Mine also started to work after I sent an update via SMS. I suppose Twitter makes SMS notification hibernated when there is no update via SMS(this seems to be important! nothing happened when I updated via Web) for a certain period of time.

jonathan replied on May 09, 2008 21:14 to the problem "SMS stopped" in Twitter:

I solved it. Went into my twitter settings, deleted my mobile number, then re-entered mobile number and re-authenticated it with an SMS. Works fine now. Must have had something to do with the db outage I guess

jonathan replied on May 09, 2008 21:14 to the problem "SMS stopped" in Twitter:

I solved it. Went into my twitter settings, deleted my mobile number, then re-entered mobile number and re-authenticated it with an SMS. Works fine now. Must have had something to do with the db outage I guess

mex replied on May 09, 2008 17:57 to the problem "SMS stopped" in Twitter:

My sms's are still working, but now my GFs have stopped. her twitter account is sunwin.

sugree replied on May 09, 2008 16:21 to the problem "SMS stopped" in Twitter:

I follow @zybernav and @ohhohe and it now works. I just need to send "on" via sms by 9 baht via truemove and click "save" in devices setting to get sms only direct messages.

The exact reason is still unknown but workaround is good enough.

A comment on the problem "SMS stopped" in Twitter:

I did the same thing as you and it worked as well. – mdy, on May 09, 2008 16:00

Nick replied on May 09, 2008 15:50 to the problem "SMS stopped" in Twitter:

I didn't receive any SMS for many days. Tried everything: re-adding my phone, making sure IM updates were off, sending ON, unchecking/re-checking SMS updates boxes... Nothing worked.

Then I sent a status update by SMS, and immediately I started receiving texts again! Following day the texts stopped coming in, so I sent another update by SMS, again they started working.

The evidence is circumstantial, so perhaps I'm wrong or maybe there's more to it than that, but for me at least updating my own status by SMS cures the problem.

I can live with having to update by text once per day, if that really is going to cure the problem long term; I just wish Twitter or whoever their SMS providers are would make the rules clear to us.

I'm on '3' in the UK and using the +44 number.

ohhohe replied on May 09, 2008 15:21 to the problem "SMS stopped" in Twitter:

I did send 'on' to a twitter number. It seems to revive my SMS updates and the counter is ticking. I told my friends who had the same problem in Thailand and it also worked out for them.

But why?

zybernav replied on May 09, 2008 15:01 to the problem "SMS stopped" in Twitter:

I'm in Thailand and the sms updates started coming back since May 7 afternoon (local time) after sending an update from my mobile.

Hope things are getting back to normal to you all.

JMoeller replied on May 09, 2008 13:03 to the problem "SMS stopped" in Twitter:

I have the same problem in Denmark on Sonofon/BiBoB.

sugree replied on May 09, 2008 08:32 to the problem "SMS stopped" in Twitter:

I didn't get sms for a week. I'm in Thailand +66 and my received sms is still 0.

jonathan replied on May 09, 2008 07:39 to the problem "SMS stopped" in Twitter:

Mine stopped too - I'm in Netherlands on +31 mobile number (KPN). Last twitter SMS received was just before midnight my local time on May 1st - since then nothing. Looks like a major glitch or Twitter has lost it's SMS rights to non-US numbers

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