Mobile

You Can Now Tweet Via SMS With Telstra

Flag
11:30AM December 23, 2009 | Nick Broughall

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).

[Telstra Exchange]

Comments

  • Ben

    December 23, 2009 at 11:50 AM

    You 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

    December 23, 2009 at 12:22 PM

    Yeah I’m with Ben. I’ve been tweeting via SMS for about a year now.

    • Adam

      December 23, 2009 at 1:33 PM

      Dumb its free now before you were paying

      • Jason Hill

        December 24, 2009 at 1:02 AM

        no 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

    December 23, 2009 at 12:48 PM

    I thought the whole point of twitter was that you did it from your phone via sms?

  • Corey Evans

    December 23, 2009 at 1:18 PM

    I guess with the insane pricing of data on Telstra, it kinda makes sense.

  • Nick Ayre

    December 24, 2009 at 2:00 AM

    Did 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

    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

      December 24, 2009 at 12:33 PM

      no difference. he never said that SMSing via T9 isn’t frustrating.

Post Your Comments