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A comment on the problem "SMS stopped" in Twitter:
Selana, I have ATT as well and mine was working fine, then it just stopped last year. I Have been adding and deleting and just can not get it to work. What is odd is that my husband has no issue with it working and mine wont. I wonder if it is because I am a second phone on his account. Although I really don't see why that would make a difference. – Vretallin, on June 30, 2008 04:25
Selana H. replied on June 30, 2008 04:22 to the problem "SMS stopped" in Twitter:
waffles replied on June 26, 2008 13:00 to the problem "Twitter not working with Gtalk at all" in Twitter:
Do you think I don't do that?
On the 13th (the newest mention of IM, they said it's still down and that they're working on it.
Which would be great, except that on the 12th they said the code was much closer. Maybe it's just me being impatient, but not having any sort of real update for that length of time with something that a good size of Twitter users want is just bad form.
jonoabroad replied on June 26, 2008 12:43 to the problem "Twitter not working with Gtalk at all" in Twitter:
J replied on June 26, 2008 12:37 to the problem "Twitter not working with Gtalk at all" in Twitter:
Mr. Gunn replied on June 26, 2008 00:37 to the problem "Twitter not working with Gtalk at all" in Twitter:
I can't send the confirmation code, because twitter@twitter.com remains in "invited" status, not where I can send anything.
waffles replied on June 25, 2008 04:40 to the problem "Twitter not working with Gtalk at all" in Twitter:
Breggol replied on June 25, 2008 04:27 to the problem "Twitter not working with Gtalk at all" in Twitter:
waffles replied on June 25, 2008 03:05 to the problem "Twitter not working with Gtalk at all" in Twitter:
kittenry replied on June 24, 2008 20:19 to the problem "Twitter not working with Gtalk at all" in Twitter:
seriously, this is becoming intolerable. gtalk is the easiest way for me to use the twitter service and syncing it with facebook. obviously the gchat function has been down for some time. it's been about a month though since i've even been able to log in to the twitter homepage - always a little whale saying 'over capacity.' since i use the twitter sync to manage my status, twitter itself is becoming more of an annoyance than a useful application. and then, i had to create a get satisfaction account just to log the problem.
i am going to have to delete my account soon if none of it is going to function anytime soon.
A comment on the problem "Twitter not working with Gtalk at all" in Twitter:
Sadly, IM is still offline so the problem is not with your account. The feature is just unavailable. – mdy, on June 21, 2008 10:08
rui704 replied on June 21, 2008 08:16 to the problem "Twitter not working with Gtalk at all" in Twitter:
mdy replied on June 07, 2008 22:54 to the problem "Twitter not working with Gtalk at all" in Twitter:
Hi ladykeli. Yes, Twitter IM is still offline. Until it's operational again, there won't be much we can do as users to get it working.
Twitter posts daily updates on their efforts to restore services at http://status.twitter.com
ladykeli replied on June 07, 2008 16:28 to the problem "Twitter not working with Gtalk at all" in Twitter:
Jack replied on May 28, 2008 01:20 to the problem "Twitter not working with Gtalk at all" in Twitter:
Hey all,
Please see this thread for updates as they happen:
http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/to...
Thanks!
A comment on the problem "Twitter not working with Gtalk at all" in Twitter:
Yes, Twitter IM is still offline. Related thread: http://gsfn.us/t/iog – mdy, on May 28, 2008 01:12
jfcarpentier replied on May 27, 2008 21:17 to the problem "Twitter not working with Gtalk at all" in Twitter:
A comment on the problem "SMS stopped" in Twitter:
hi eridanus I'm in ireland using three ireland and its very frustrating and i think your comments are very very relevant since a lot of mobile tariffs in ireland don't include free texts and also charge very highly for international texts - would twitter ever consider having a relevant sms number for each country and not just +44 for half the world!!!! if the twitter team would do something about your comment-6. *** A lot of us would be a lot happier if Twitter could get the ON command to work from the Web. ***" that would be a big help - COME ON TWITTER - THERES A LOT OF US OUT THERE WHO WANT TO USE THE SERVICE BUT ITS NOT ALWAYS EASY OR FREE!!!!!! – brackagh, on May 26, 2008 12:30
Eridanus replied on May 24, 2008 11:29 to the problem "SMS stopped" in Twitter:
See Crystal's interim reply in
http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/to... for the most comprehensive and useful explanation I've discovered so far.
Crystal and Jack from Twitter are following that topic, so I'll post this there too.
As I currently understand it:
1. SMS updates are very easy to turn OFF, from wherever you like (Web, phone, ...).
2. Twitter automatically turns SMS updates OFF whenever one of their their SMS fails to trigger a prompt confirmation of delivery from your phone network, for any reason at all. Your mobile service provider may have a temporary problem, your phone's battery needs charging, your phone can't get a signal, it's busy reorganising its memory, or whatever.
3. When Twitter goes down, SMS updates will probably go OFF too - and may very occasionally (though more probably not) go back ON when Twitter returns.
4. The only way to turn SMS updates ON is to send a classical SMS from your phone to the relevant Twitter No. (the international No. +447624801423 in my case) - quite expensive for some people. I'm certainly not going to do THAT 30 times a month! Using a 3rd. party app. running on your phone isn't enough: Twitter wants a "genuine" SMS to confirm SMS is working for your phone.
This classical SMS needn't be an ON message: a normal 140-character update will tell Twitter that SMS is working on your phone and turn SMS updates ON (until the next hiccough turns it back OFF).
For what it's worth:
I sent ON (to +447624801423) yesterday, immediately received Twitter's SMS confirmation, and received all 9 expected SMS updates over the next few hours.
Today, however, I've received nothing (should have been 2 SMS so far) - result of last night's downtime? Or were SMS updates affected by this? :-
"Given an overflow of IM traffic, we're going to shut off IM services for the night while things recover. We'll keep you updated!"
[blog link: http://blog.twitter.com/2008/05/too-m...]
5. For some people even this classical SMS isn't enough: they have to delete & re-register their phone to persuade SMS updates to work again for a few hours. This is risky, because sometimes a deleted phone won't re-register.
6. *** A lot of us would be a lot happier if Twitter could get the ON command to work from the Web. ***
7. Twitter could wait longer (e.g. two successive non-confirmations of delivery) before automatically turning SMS updates OFF. (Might be cumbersome to implement, though: introducing an extra database of pending c-of-d's with a counter for each user).
8. I'd really like to recommend Twitter to my friends - but at present this SMS problem makes Twitter just too fiddly for non-geeks to be bothered with.
A comment on the problem "SMS stopped" in Twitter:
I had the same problem yesterday. Tried to verify my phone again today and this time it worked. So I'm guessing it might have been related to one of this week's outages. – mdy, on May 24, 2008 06:14
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