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Yes. Many people did. Twitter's success at 140 characters was largely based on being accessible without the high cost of a smart phone at a time when not ever
by ChikkaChiChi 12y ago
Yes. Many people did. Twitter's success at 140 characters was largely based on being accessible without the high cost of a smart phone at a time when not everyone had an iPhone or T-Mobile Android.
I don't have any hard statistics, but I used Twitter before I had a smartphone; and you asked a question where an anecdote would suffice.
- freshyill 12y agoWell my real point was that SMS isn't what drove Twitter's growth, which was a major point in the article. Twitter's growth coincides very closely with smartphone usage growth, in 2009-2010—well after SMS was the norm for connecting to it, if it ever was. SMS may have been useful early on, but apps certainly killed SMS usage.