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| Big Boss |
| I'm already annoyed by the people that update their facebook status 5+ times a day, now this... |
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| Chris Allen |
Bell lets Canada's Twitterers get tweets via txt msgs
Canadian Twitter users will once again be able to send and receive updates as text messages on their mobile phones if they have wireless service with Bell Mobility.
That makes the company the first wireless carrier to offer full SMS, short message service or text message, support for the popular social networking application in Canada, Bell announced in a release Tuesday.
Until now, Canadian users could send Twitter updates or "tweets" via SMS. However, Twitter stopped allowing them to receive updates from other users via SMS in November, citing the cost. For the past three months, only Twitter users in the U.S. could receive the updates via SMS.
15 cents per tweet
Bell is charging users 15 cents for each Twitter message they send or receive, even if they have an unlimited text messaging plan.
"Because Twitter is a third party service, the messages are considered premium and not covered by our plans. This aligns with industry standards regarding third party premium messaging," said Bell spokeswoman Julie Smithers in an email.
Twitter users may receive dozens of tweets a day from other Twitter users that they have signed up to "follow."
However, Smithers said Bell Mobility customers will have the option of restricting the updates they receive by SMS. For example, they could choose to receive tweets from only 10 of the 50 people they are following, or they could turn SMS service off altogether.
As of this February, Twitter is the third most popular social networking site on the web after Facebook and MySpace
Source: http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/...itter-bell.html |
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| Dior Homme |
That guy sounds like the goofball trying to explain why Apple products to me.
He probably has salt and pepper hair and has 'neat' thin black-framed glasses.
I really hate that type of voice. |
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| Abercrombie |
| ripoff then.... the hell with twitter in Canada |
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| StereoPrincess |
| quote: | Originally posted by Abercrombie
Now this is bull.... sorry if I'm upset... I go through all the trouble of getting signed up, and it's only good for Bell phone customers :whip:
it's useless to me now |
works perfect on blackberry :D |
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| Owen M |
| quote: | Originally posted by Chris Allen
15 cents per tweet
Bell is charging users 15 cents for each Twitter message they send or receive, even if they have an unlimited text messaging plan.
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are you ing kidding? that's a bit silly.
What's the dig with rogers? Is it still free to send, but we still can't receive?
If it's the same price as Bell, I'm locking twitter off my phone.
Gay...and not the good gay either. |
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| Owen M |
| quote: | Originally posted by Abercrombie
Now this is bull.... sorry if I'm upset... I go through all the trouble of getting signed up, and it's only good for Bell phone customers :whip:
it's useless to me now |
I have rogers. It's free to send to twitter right now, but rogers can't recieve.
my phone is ringing and beeping every 88 seconds anyways. I could do without geting my "tweets" to my phone. I'll save it for computer time. |
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| Abercrombie |
| quote: | Originally posted by Owen M
I have rogers. It's free to send to twitter right now, but rogers can't recieve.
my phone is ringing and beeping every 88 seconds anyways. I could do without geting my "tweets" to my phone. I'll save it for computer time. |
Receiving is fine, np... I get my FB updates through my phone, cool, but the main feature and point of twitter is useless. |
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| Frenchie |
| I find it silly to have facebook, twitter AND myspace when you have the same people on all 3 and update your status at the same time to say the same thing on all 3. Really? Take a break and walk away. No one misses you or cares that much. |
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| Mr Moss |
| haha so now i can twitter from an afterhours and give real time reviews with track id updates? maybe even network with other ppl twittering from the same place! |
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| Mr Moss |
| oh thats too much ^ |
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