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Thomas - as you've obviously done an 'accurate' study, please do publish your results somewhere. As a user of the service who regularly interacts with hundreds of other UK users of the service (a pretty reasonable control group, one might suggest) I know of NO-ONE who uses Twitter as a group texting tool. Not one. Not one person that I know who's on twitter, whether I follow them or not, is using it for that purpose. That's not to say that there aren't people doing that, but in reference to your first statement : "apparently Twitter.com was never big in the UK, they only used it for free group texting" - that's clearly bollocks.

The people I know who are annoyed (myself included) at the service used to use the SMS service to get DIRECT messages from friends on twitter - it provided a way of getting time sensitive information from individual users. A REALLY useful part of the service, even a vital part of the service, but certainly not a 'free group texting' service.

FWIW, almost everyone I've spoken to (10s not 100s of british twitter users) would be happy to pay for the texting service to be reinstated.

I await the statistics from your study with eagerness. – solobasssteve, on August 16, 2008 19:41

Thomas, that's hardly conclusive... they're both clearly very light users of Twitter, and the second one is based in Germany... The majority of the people I follow on twitter are in the UK, and while the DM to SMS feature was popular, even vital to the way many of us use twitter, the suggestion that '_they_ only used it for free group texting' is ridiculous. – solobasssteve, on August 15, 2008 00:00