Following on from their Facebook via SMS initiative, Telstra this morning announced support for Twitter via SMS. Hurray?
Seriously, I could not imagine a single thing more frustrating than tweeting via T9. And considering that pretty much every device that has a qwerty or touchscreen keyboard also has a Twitter client, I’m struggling to see the real benefit of this.
But rather than boring you with what I think about the service, which is free to receive tweet SMS messages, but cost standard SMS rates to send (for updating your status, DMing other users etc.).
If you’re a Telstra customer keen on this service, just send a blank SMS to 01980 89488 (01980 TWITT).
Ben
Wednesday, December 23, 2009 at 11:50 AMYou could already send messages to twitter via sms from any carrier I think to update your status so i don’t really see any benefit
Neil Nuttall
Wednesday, December 23, 2009 at 12:22 PMYeah I’m with Ben. I’ve been tweeting via SMS for about a year now.
Adam
Wednesday, December 23, 2009 at 1:33 PMDumb its free now before you were paying
Jason Hill
Thursday, December 24, 2009 at 1:02 AMno youre still paying,
its now standard txt rates rather than the 30c? or whatever it was before
but you can get updates messaged TO your phone now as well.
matt
Wednesday, December 23, 2009 at 12:48 PMI thought the whole point of twitter was that you did it from your phone via sms?
Corey Evans
Wednesday, December 23, 2009 at 1:18 PMI guess with the insane pricing of data on Telstra, it kinda makes sense.
Nick Ayre
Thursday, December 24, 2009 at 2:00 AMDid you guys even read it? They still charge you to send the sms, but now you can receive them from twitter which you can’t unless you live in American, Canada or the UK.
Chris
Thursday, December 24, 2009 at 9:37 AM“I could not imagine a single thing more frustrating than tweeting via T9″
I’m sorry? But do you use SMS? What’s the difference?
matt
Thursday, December 24, 2009 at 12:33 PMno difference. he never said that SMSing via T9 isn’t frustrating.