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Silky,
Agreed. The only way would be for someone other than twitter to foot the bill, and search for a great price on international GSM gateway access through the likes of South Africa (where currency differentials make this sort of thing remotely possible).
Given the carriers make something like $1m profit on 1GB of SMS, the fact they haven't been more amenable to working with someone like Twitter (it is their spare wireless bandwidth after all!!!) is a disgrace.
Perhaps the answer is to abandon SMS as the channel?
Geoff
the main problem i see with this is that making people pay for
you're free to ignore this and do it, but what it will result in is a
big mistake, imho.
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-----Original Message-----
From: silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com [mailto:silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of silky
Sent: Thursday, 14 August 2008 9:58 PM
To: silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com
Subject: [SiliconBeach] Re: New project idea: Bringing back Twitter SMS
incoming sms' *sucks* majorly. they can't control it (except by
incuring a cost).
backlash against twitter itself. people will start to associate a cost
with it's use.
noon silk