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Australians gagging for a local Twitter number...
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Cathy Edwards Hey all - you can now post to a local Australian Twitter number with 3jam! You need to go to www.3jam.com/twitter to map your Twitter username to your phone number, but then you can post to +61416905201 and we'll post your update to your Twitter timeline. Plus you can receive your DMs via SMS for a very small fee (5c for Australians). Yay!
Josh Liebmann
AND FINALLY, PART 4:
Twitter will continue to negotiate with mobile operators in
Europe, Asia, China, and The Americas to forge relationships
that benefit all our users. Our goal is to provide full, two-way
service with Twitter via SMS to every nation in a way that is
sustainable from a cost perspective. Talks with mobile c...ompanies
around the world continue. In the meantime, more local numbers
for updating via SMS are on the way. We'll keep you posted.
Thank you for your attention,
Biz Stone, Co-founder
Twitter, Inc.
http://twitter.com/biz
Read More
Twitter will continue to negotiate with mobile operators in
Europe, Asia, China, and The Americas to forge relationships
that benefit all our users. Our goal is to provide full, two-way
service with Twitter via SMS to every nation in a way that is
sustainable from a cost perspective. Talks with mobile c...ompanies
around the world continue. In the meantime, more local numbers
for updating via SMS are on the way. We'll keep you posted.
Thank you for your attention,
Biz Stone, Co-founder
Twitter, Inc.
http://twitter.com/biz
Read More
Josh Liebmann
PART 3:
Since you probably don't live in
Canada, India, or the US, we recommend receiving your Twitter
updates via one of the following methods.
m.twitter.com works on browser-enabled phones
m.slandr.net works on browser-enabled phones
TwitterMail.com works on email-enabled phones
Cellity [http://bit.ly/12bw4R] works on java-...enabled phones
TwitterBerry [http://bit.ly/MFAfJ] works on BlackBerry phones
Twitterific [http://bit.ly/1WxjwQ] works on iPhones
Twitter SMS by The Numbers
It pains us to take this measure. However, we need to avoid
placing undue burden on our company and our service. Even with a
limit of 250 messages received per week, it could cost Twitter
about $1,000 per user, per year to send SMS outside of Canada,
India, or the US. It makes more sense for us to establish fair
billing arrangements with mobile operators than it does to pass
these high fees on to our users.Read More
Since you probably don't live in
Canada, India, or the US, we recommend receiving your Twitter
updates via one of the following methods.
m.twitter.com works on browser-enabled phones
m.slandr.net works on browser-enabled phones
TwitterMail.com works on email-enabled phones
Cellity [http://bit.ly/12bw4R] works on java-...enabled phones
TwitterBerry [http://bit.ly/MFAfJ] works on BlackBerry phones
Twitterific [http://bit.ly/1WxjwQ] works on iPhones
Twitter SMS by The Numbers
It pains us to take this measure. However, we need to avoid
placing undue burden on our company and our service. Even with a
limit of 250 messages received per week, it could cost Twitter
about $1,000 per user, per year to send SMS outside of Canada,
India, or the US. It makes more sense for us to establish fair
billing arrangements with mobile operators than it does to pass
these high fees on to our users.Read More
Josh Liebmann
PART 2:
Why are we making these changes?
Mobile operators in most of the world charge users to send
updates. When you send one message to Twitter and we send it to
ten followers, you aren't charged ten times--that's because we've
been footing the bill. When we launched our free SMS service to
the world, we set the clock tick...ing. As the service grew in
popularity, so too would the price.
Our challenge during this window of time was to establish
relationships with mobile operators around the world such that
our SMS services could become sustainable from a cost perspective.
We achieved this goal in Canada, India, and the United States.
We can provide full incoming and outgoing SMS service without
passing along operator fees in these countries.
We took a risk hoping to bring more nations onboard and more
mobile operators around to our way of thinking but we've arrived
at a point where the responsible thing to do is slow our costs
and take a different approach. Read More
Why are we making these changes?
Mobile operators in most of the world charge users to send
updates. When you send one message to Twitter and we send it to
ten followers, you aren't charged ten times--that's because we've
been footing the bill. When we launched our free SMS service to
the world, we set the clock tick...ing. As the service grew in
popularity, so too would the price.
Our challenge during this window of time was to establish
relationships with mobile operators around the world such that
our SMS services could become sustainable from a cost perspective.
We achieved this goal in Canada, India, and the United States.
We can provide full incoming and outgoing SMS service without
passing along operator fees in these countries.
We took a risk hoping to bring more nations onboard and more
mobile operators around to our way of thinking but we've arrived
at a point where the responsible thing to do is slow our costs
and take a different approach. Read More
Josh Liebmann
Received this from Twitter via email... no mention of Australia (cough)
Hi,
I'm sending you this note because you registered a mobile device
to work with Twitter over our UK number. I wanted to let you
know that we are making some changes to the way SMS works on
Twitter. There is some good news and some bad news.
I'll start ...with the bad news. Beginning today, Twitter is no
longer delivering outbound SMS over our UK number. If you enjoy
receiving updates from Twitter via +44 762 480 1423, we are
recommending that you explore some suggested alternatives.
Note: You will still be able to UPDATE over our UK number.
Before I go into more detail, here's a bit of good news: Twitter
will be introducing several new, local SMS numbers in countries
throughout Europe in the coming weeks and months. These new
numbers will make Twittering more accessible for you if you've
been using SMS to send long-distance updates from outside the UK.
Read More
Hi,
I'm sending you this note because you registered a mobile device
to work with Twitter over our UK number. I wanted to let you
know that we are making some changes to the way SMS works on
Twitter. There is some good news and some bad news.
I'll start ...with the bad news. Beginning today, Twitter is no
longer delivering outbound SMS over our UK number. If you enjoy
receiving updates from Twitter via +44 762 480 1423, we are
recommending that you explore some suggested alternatives.
Note: You will still be able to UPDATE over our UK number.
Before I go into more detail, here's a bit of good news: Twitter
will be introducing several new, local SMS numbers in countries
throughout Europe in the coming weeks and months. These new
numbers will make Twittering more accessible for you if you've
been using SMS to send long-distance updates from outside the UK.
Read More
Josh Liebmann Hi all... Still locked in a stalemate though there's a feeling that twitter is on the verge of folding and giving into our demands. Slightly off topic but i have a few brightkite.com invites if anyone wants...
Kerri Bennett
I've been using Twitterfox and it rocks
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox
Gavin oh, its gone quiet here. Meanwhile my SMS bill is building up
Josh Liebmann
andrew: great heads up about twitterfone... i'm sure heaps of people here will be looking for invites.
however whilst it's a great service, it's not quite what we're looking for... after all, how am i supposed to update twitter verbally whilst i'm killing time in meetings at work? :P
Fiona Thank you Jim Benson! And not every other tweet is about gin... Perhaps every other other one or something ;-)
Andrew Sayer
Aussie number listed below -
Just call the number nearest you from the list below, speak clearly after the beep, then hangup.
* IRELAND: +35315262723
* US: +17036778152
* SWITZERLAND: +41225885680
* UK: +442030516569
* FRANCE: +33170617776
* BELGIUM: +3228081493
* FINLAND: +358942419367
* NETHERLANDS: +31208080732
* NORWAY: +472...1543287
* SWEDEN: +46852503487
* ISRAEL: +97237219370
* JAPAN: +81345801969
* SPAIN: +34911878119
* ITALY: +390662207074
* AUSTRALIA: +61290372482
* CANADA: +16044841830
* NEW ZEALAND: +6499250425
* GERMANY: +49511260982113
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Just call the number nearest you from the list below, speak clearly after the beep, then hangup.
* IRELAND: +35315262723
* US: +17036778152
* SWITZERLAND: +41225885680
* UK: +442030516569
* FRANCE: +33170617776
* BELGIUM: +3228081493
* FINLAND: +358942419367
* NETHERLANDS: +31208080732
* NORWAY: +472...1543287
* SWEDEN: +46852503487
* ISRAEL: +97237219370
* JAPAN: +81345801969
* SPAIN: +34911878119
* ITALY: +390662207074
* AUSTRALIA: +61290372482
* CANADA: +16044841830
* NEW ZEALAND: +6499250425
* GERMANY: +49511260982113
Read More
Harriet Wakelam .....in fact i don't use sms nearly as much as i would if we had the number - so unashamedly pleading here...
Jim
I love Australians and I believe that they deserve telephone numbers like first world countries! Come on Twitter, it's not the Vegemite is it? I mean, really? Look - most of them are well kept. Yeah Specht doesn't shave, but that's more of a fashion statement than solvenliness.
Australians have been twiittering fo...r dozens of years and they do it well. Like, here, here is an Aussie Tweet: Saw four guys at the cemetery today walking around with a coffin for 3 hours. Thought to myself- these guys have lost the plot. (thank-you!) about 10 hours ago from web.
Okay, so there you go. It's .. well .. a tweet. I would have used a different one, but every single other tweet is about gin and I didn't think that'd read well.
So I think you can see, Twitter, if that's your real name, that Australians deserve a phone number. And that's Australia - the hot one with little ozone and lots of dirt - not Austria where they have sausage and violins. Read More
Australians have been twiittering fo...r dozens of years and they do it well. Like, here, here is an Aussie Tweet: Saw four guys at the cemetery today walking around with a coffin for 3 hours. Thought to myself- these guys have lost the plot. (thank-you!) about 10 hours ago from web.
Okay, so there you go. It's .. well .. a tweet. I would have used a different one, but every single other tweet is about gin and I didn't think that'd read well.
So I think you can see, Twitter, if that's your real name, that Australians deserve a phone number. And that's Australia - the hot one with little ozone and lots of dirt - not Austria where they have sausage and violins. Read More
James Griffiths Actually I'm not sure I'm "Gagging" for a local number. But at least a service that WORKS 100% of the time.
