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UK SMS alerts: any news?
As more of my friends are joining twitter here in the UK, I'd like to start receiving SMS alerts again. However, when I go to enable them on the twitter settings, I am told my number is not supported (I'm on a UK O2 number).
I vaguely recall SMS alerts being switched off in the UK for some business reason (I used to use them to get a daily to do list from 'remember the milk'). So my question is:
When will UK twitter users get SMS alerts back?
Is there any news? Please could we be kept informed?
(That's three questions, but they are all related!)
I vaguely recall SMS alerts being switched off in the UK for some business reason (I used to use them to get a daily to do list from 'remember the milk'). So my question is:
When will UK twitter users get SMS alerts back?
Is there any news? Please could we be kept informed?
(That's three questions, but they are all related!)
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Inappropriate?I'm very interested in this too, since I live in Germany, and my contacts in the UK and certain other countries likewise lack Twitter SMS reception.
Until UK Twitter SMS reception returns, you may be interested in alternative ways (paid and unpaid) of receiving Twitter updates on your phone, where I included lots of (hopefully useful) links.
Read through the later posts in that thread for more recent ideas - and please add your own thoughts, too.
I'll do my best to update the thread with interesting developments as I become aware of them.
Please click this link for my most recent update on SMS reception outside Canada, India and the USA.
I’m medium-term hopeful...
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Thanks for the suggestions and links. I do find it hard to find the most relevant post here, and official information seems rather scarce on twitter itself. -
Inappropriate?Update. According to this piece in the Indy newspaper, 2way tweeting is about to be restored in the UK. http://tinyurl.com/cps887
It would be rather nice for twitter to acknowledge the accuracy of the story, and give us a rough idea when we can expect to get it back...please? -
Inappropriate?Thanks for the interesting link :-)
However, I'm less optimistic than you about the interpretation. All that Independent article has to say about 2-way tweeting is:Growth in the UK is likely to be accelerated by the reintroduction of free two-way text messaging of "tweets" to countries outside the US.
I interpret ...is likely to be... in the sense of ...would probably be...
The service was withdrawn in Europe last year because it was too expensive for the company.
Twitter indicated their good intentions of implementing new national Twitter numbers way back (3 Oct 2008). In this sense, 2-way tweeting has been "about to be restored in the UK" for nearly 4 months now :-(
Admittedly, new German and Swedish national numbers for 1-way Twitter SMS text messaging were recently unveiled (and I certainly hope the German one will become 2-way some day!) - but that's all, so far. (Note that Twitter often refer to "international" when they mean "outside the USA").
Of course, I'll continue to monitor @Twitter, http://status.twitter.com and http://blog.twitter.com for new developments.
The Independent article is rather sloppily written, e.g.:The popularity of Twitter [..] has seen its visitor numbers increase by nearly 1,000 per cent among UK users.
There's no indication anywhere of the period of time (2 weeks? 1 month? 1 year?) needed for that 974% increase in traffic.
Latest figures from Hitwise, the online intelligence service, show a 974 per cent increase in traffic, jolting Twitter from the 2,953rd most popular site among UK users to the 291st most visited by mid-January.
The only concrete development mentioned in the article is an upcoming beta test of an improved user interface for Twitter's seach functions:[O]ver the next 10 days, Twitter will start putting search functions into the home page of around 1 per cent of users, asking them for feedback about its efficacy. Biz Stone[:] "Search integration is a way of introducing relevancy to people" [..].
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Inappropriate?Seems like service has been restored to some countries, but still no word on UK service.
Come on...
I’m losing the will to keep asking
