Can Twittex tempt texting cold turkey Brit Twitterers?
By Davey Winder in Editorial
Posted in Blog, Facebook, Internet on
Up until the 14th August all was calm in the land of the Brit Twitterer. Then Twitter announced it was pulling the free SMS alert for UK users. Now, a mere two weeks later, Twitterers are experiencing cold turkey withdrawal symptoms and looking for an alternative.
Which is where ISP and VoIP specialist Gradwell comes in with the newly announced Twittex service which promises to fill the void for text hungry Brit Twitterers.
Well, sort of. It ain’t free unfortunately. Instead it adopts a pre-pay service model. Gradwell MD Peter Gradwell (do you think that’s why he got the job, having the same name as the company?) explains what’s going on:
“At Gradwell, we had recently launched a new service, a news website, so that our customers can be kept informed of alerts and maintenance concerning our broadband, email, hosting and VoIP. This new service published updates to Twitter, so that our customers could use Twitter’s SMS alerts when away from their computers. With Twitter no longer sending out SMS alerts, we needed an alternative – so we built twittex!”
Good news if you really cannot manage without Twitter SMS updates I guess. However, some of us have realised that there is more to life (online) than Twitter and instead of going cold turkey have simply trotted away from the service altogether.
Facebook via your iPhone app anyone?
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