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This was the only way to do it with the SMS interface.
by eridius 11y ago
This was the only way to do it with the SMS interface.
- aembleton 11y agoThey could have provided a different number for direct messages.
- joshstrange 11y agoI'd be really interested to see how many users still use the SMS interface. I switched away from it as soon as I got my first smartphone and haven't looked back.
- qq66 11y agoMy guess is that the number has recently increased, with most phone plans now offering unlimited talk+text but metered data. On a prepaid plan, when you've run out of data, some carriers will just do a hard stop on your data and others will reduce it to a slow trickle, so the SMS interface might be the best.
- untog 11y agoI very much doubt it. Using Twitter is such a way would be absolutely awful these days, and few people (outside of the tech bubble) hit their data plan limits.
- cosarara97 11y agoThe tech bubble? More like the teenagers with snapchat, youtube and twitch.
- qq66 11y agoA lot of data plan limits out there are 100MB, 250MB, etc.
- mkaziz 11y agoTwitter doesn't hog that much data.
- qq66 11y agoIt's not about how much data it hogs -- it's that for prepaid plans (which are the vast majority of overall subscribers worldwide), when your data runs out it often just completely turns off until you get another top-up card.
- Ueland 11y ago2-300MB per month on my phone, that is too much for many data plans.
- comrh 11y agoSMS is much more global and accessible to countries lower on the digital divide.
- runn1ng 11y agoHa. I now have a throwback to my earlier days, when I subscribed to Ron Paul and I used to get all his tweets as messages on my dumbphone. And I read each single one. Luckily, I bought a smartphone later and stopped being a libertarian.
- MBCook 11y agoI honestly wonder how many people even know the SMS gateway stuff exists at all and think Twitter can only be used via the app/site.