Comments on: Taking a look at Twttr.com http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2006/07/taking_a_look_a.html Daily news and opinion for 250,000 industry executives and mobile fanatics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:14:00 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dan Lane http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2006/07/taking_a_look_a.html/comment-page-1#comment-257 Dan Lane Sun, 16 Jul 2006 21:03:42 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.co.uk/2006/07/taking_a_look_at_twttrcom.html#comment-257 Ewan: when I first saw twttr I knew it'd never work in the UK because: 1. In the UK, everyone would call it twatter. I read it as twatter even after I tried to condition myself to read it as twitter (although my fragile mind has been warped from working with pornographers). This is not a good thing from a marketing point of view (or maybe it is!) 2. Like you pointed out it requires the user to stop what they are doing and update twttr, ergo, every user's status will be "Updating twttr". It'd be much better to use one of the similar services (I'm assuming these exist, if they don't then it's my idea and you can't have it!) that runs an app to check the Cell ID and figure out where you are (based on a user-updated database). It won't say "I'm in Pizza Express" but it will say "I'm in London", "I'm in Essex" or "I'm in North Wales" at which point I can say, hey Ewan is nearby, I'll ping him and see if he fancies a pint. Jack: as far as I know sending a text messages to that international long-number would incur a higher-than-usual cost for most users. To make twttr appealing to UK users you could look into getting a UK long number (not a shortcode, no networks include shortcodes in their inclusive text plans). Ewan: when I first saw twttr I knew it’d never work in the UK because:

1. In the UK, everyone would call it twatter. I read it as twatter even after I tried to condition myself to read it as twitter (although my fragile mind has been warped from working with pornographers). This is not a good thing from a marketing point of view (or maybe it is!)

2. Like you pointed out it requires the user to stop what they are doing and update twttr, ergo, every user’s status will be “Updating twttr”.

It’d be much better to use one of the similar services (I’m assuming these exist, if they don’t then it’s my idea and you can’t have it!) that runs an app to check the Cell ID and figure out where you are (based on a user-updated database). It won’t say “I’m in Pizza Express” but it will say “I’m in London”, “I’m in Essex” or “I’m in North Wales” at which point I can say, hey Ewan is nearby, I’ll ping him and see if he fancies a pint.

Jack: as far as I know sending a text messages to that international long-number would incur a higher-than-usual cost for most users. To make twttr appealing to UK users you could look into getting a UK long number (not a shortcode, no networks include shortcodes in their inclusive text plans).

]]> By: jack http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2006/07/taking_a_look_a.html/comment-page-1#comment-256 jack Sun, 16 Jul 2006 17:08:22 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.co.uk/2006/07/taking_a_look_at_twttrcom.html#comment-256 Hello Ewan, Twttr works in the UK with our long-code: 415-283-8611. We've had some problems with the gateway software over the past 24h which has prevented sending out passwords properly. This should be resolved shortly. We are looking to be a global service (one of our developers lives in Germany). Thank you for trying it out! jack (from twttr) Hello Ewan,

Twttr works in the UK with our long-code: 415-283-8611. We’ve had some problems with the gateway software over the past 24h which has prevented sending out passwords properly. This should be resolved shortly.

We are looking to be a global service (one of our developers lives in Germany). Thank you for trying it out!

jack (from twttr)

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