Comments on: TxtDrop.com launches free texting by OS X widget

By: aluga

aluga — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:55:24 +0000

I know that with some services, the user can block text messages from the email/website gateways. I use Cingular and deliberately disabled all SMS except those from another phone, which cannot be blocked. (This was over a year ago and may have changed.)

Perhaps some of the other free services are using a phone SMS gateway instead, so they go through?

By: Radha

Radha — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 21:50:22 +0000

Is this some kind of joke? I used txtdrop to send myself a text message and the text message never came! So I checked with my provider and they said that SMTP SMS are blocked by default on my Fido service to prevent others from sending me messages that “I would be charged for”.

TxtDrop is a scam in a way because the person sending the message doesn’t pay, but the person receiving does. What’s so free about that?

I don’t stick to a single free text service, the ones I have used such as 3jam, Zemble, and Peekamo have always arrived to my phone.

TxtDrop claims they have sent 500,000 messages, but 500,000 messages were definitely not received.

By: robert

robert — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:23:17 +0000

hi there

any chance of adding NEW ZEALAND to your setup?

…please!

many thanks

robert ; )

By: Steve M Nash

Steve M Nash — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:46:00 +0000

Thanks to TxtDrop (and Ewan) for letting me know about
this too. I shall broadcast this news on my site, and to
my newsletter subscribers soon.

Steve

PS I really must plough my way through all of your
news items, Ewan (via bloglines RSS feed). I really
only noticed this because TxtDrop got in touch via
Myspace.

By: TxtDrop

TxtDrop — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:26:58 +0000

Thanks for letting your readers know about our new widget, Ewan!

The download page for our widget is http://www.txtdrop.com/widget.php