Thursday, November 27, 2008

Twitter kills Canadian SMS updates

Due to greedy Canadian ISPs?

I'm shocked, shocked...

The quiet killing of this feature (made on the Twitter Status blog rather than the main Twitter blog), is due to “unexpected changes in our [Twitter's] billing,” according to the post. The arrangement Twitter had negotiated with Canadian mobile carriers to send Twitter updates via text (which Twitter was subsidizing) has apparently seen costs double multiple times over the past several months.

Read more here.

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