I remember when the ability to use Twitter via SMS was touted as a way to help people communicate around firewalls and internet outages or restrictive data plan

I remember when the ability to use Twitter via SMS was touted as a way to help people communicate around firewalls and internet outages or restrictive data plans. I'm not sure if there was ever a strong case for that, but the idealist in me feels that this is a loss for some of the least connected.