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Yes, the idea that there is any extra room in the SMS protocol for metadata that Twitter is somehow missing is completely retarded. (Source: I spent 2 years bu
by seldo 18y ago
Yes, the idea that there is any extra room in the SMS protocol for metadata that Twitter is somehow missing is completely retarded.
(Source: I spent 2 years building SMS-based applications for a mobile content company. I can format my SMS in binary, and trust me, there's no space in there.)
- omarchowdhury 18y agoMay I ask what company/product you worked for? I am launching my own SMS content service very soon, just curious.
- seldo 18y agoThey are called Boltblue (Boltblue.com). In terms of product offering they're very unexciting: just your bog-standard ringtone/wallpaper company. But I had to implement payment systems and an SMS gateway in Java, going all the way down to SMS binary format because (at the time) they sold black-and-white "service logos" for Nokias, a crazy hack which fitted 160x30 pixel binary images into multi-part SMS messages. (There are also a couple other mobile products where it's useful to be able to format your own SMS) I learned a lot and the people who worked there were great, although it's not a company that's going places.
- lacker 18y agoMost people don't use Twitter over SMS any more.
- DataWhore 18y agoI never got that unless you followed about 4 people.