Twitter Turns Off its Original SMS Service in Most Countries (theverge.com) 6
For the most part, you can no longer use Twitter as it was originally built to be used: over text message. From a report: Last week, Twitter turned off the ability to receive SMS messages containing the text of new tweets. The feature was disabled in all but "a few countries" that rely on the feature. This won't be a huge deal for the vasty majority of Twitter users who access the service via the app or website. But there are already complaints from some people who still used SMS to read tweets. The change largely marks the end of an era for Twitter: when the service launched, it was built around SMS. Its original 140-character limit was tailored to text message sizes, and you were meant to send and receive new tweets entirely over SMS.
The spleen! The spleen! (Score:2)
Now we're left with this hunk of junk relic where we have public figures like doctors breaking everything down into 140 characters. I belie
Ve that this signals the death of the paragraph.
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Re: The spleen! The spleen! (Score:2)
Well since you were costing Twitter a bunch of money and making them zero revenue, they probably are glad to see you go...
It's a start (Score:3)
Now turn off the rest and we can go on with our lives.
Twitter is now for rectal display only (Score:3)
Breaking news from unrelated people on scene when something happens was the last unique and really good use case for Twitter. Now it's just a website with an attitude.
Literally all I used it for (Score:2)
Literally the only thing I use Twitter for is receiving notifications that are sent to a private Twitter account. It was a cheap (as in, free) way to send mass notifications to a large number of people via SMS, all without having to gather numbers or anything like that. Best of all, you didn't need anything special to receive them, just a phone.
With the removal of this feature, I can no longer say that there's any reason to use Twitter. Especially because the phone clients (required to receive push notifica