Well, one of the big benefits of SMS twitter was you could subscribe with no account. We used this for our systems notification twitter account to send out stat

Well, one of the big benefits of SMS twitter was you could subscribe with no account. We used this for our systems notification twitter account to send out status updates during downtime or any time when we were pretty sure our user base couldn't access our status page through normal means. Mildly annoying was at the time there wasn't a way to see how many SMS subscribers you had. Don't know if that has changed or not, but it left us constantly wondering how many we had outside of our IRL headcount.