Comments on: Twitter sees the light

By: Edmund

Edmund — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:32:26 +0000

Inevitable, I guess – no such thing as a free lunch. But there's no way I'm going to pay to have news pushed to me (which is how I used Twitter, in conjunction with Twitterfeed's clever RSS tweeting system), when I can always go and fetch it for free when the fancy takes me.

By: Edmund

Edmund — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:32:26 +0000

By: Edmund

Edmund — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:32:26 +0000

By: James Whatley

James Whatley — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:34:21 +0000

As I said on Twitter just a little while ago (in response to Nacho actually) re: The apparent 'Death' of Twitter:

"The End of Twitter" ? Just because we've stopped getting SMS? Yeah, right. Like it matters. They have a phrase in the US that goes:

"Saying you're big in the UK is like saying you're the most popular guy in New Jersey"

- Bad news for brits, but not for Biz (Stone - Founder of Twitter).

By: smstextnews

smstextnews — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:32:06 +0000

Because no one will pay for it…

It's all very well getting woken up by a Tweet saying 'Just ate a brilliant
cupcake' — i.e. something highly irrelevant. But when you've had to pay
for the privilege yourself, that's where the wheels fall off.

By: nacho

nacho — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:32:04 +0000

Right but why the UK? Surely SMS costs elsewhere are higher

What's the UK penetration of twitter? Not at normob level I'm sure

Get the twiteratti pay for it

Ok, let's move on, any other twitter-like services? I mean with SMS integration

By: Samantha

Samantha — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:31:31 +0000

I'm on Twitter, with quite a few followers, and I follow a few (BBC News mainly), and I've never recieved an outgoing message from them.

I'm not too hung up on the idea of a premium Twitter, and for the normobs out there (even myself), I wouldn't ever invest in it. I can't say anyone's Twitterings are that important to me.

I'll be interested to see what comes of this though.

Samantha.

By: Chris at LG

Chris at LG — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:03:33 +0000

It's a shame but as you say – texts cost money and someone has to pay. Judging from the buzz on Twitter this morning lots of people are suggesting they launch a paid-for premium service to enable texts – I wonder why they didn't think of it?