DISQUS

Andy Piper · 1 year ago

Well, I can see that Twitter must have been completely bleeding cash as usage mounted. One option is that they could introduce a fee-based service, of course. I'm not hugely upset by the loss of this service... although I used it initially, lately I've relied on DMs coming through email (which I accept are not going to be always accessible from the phone), and use a combination of Hahlo and Twinkle on the iPhone for posting or reviewing messages. But then, I made the choice of the iPhone explicitly knowing that it would enable me to be online in this manner, with an all-I-can-eat data subscription... and again I realise that isn't the case across Europe.

I'm not sure this is enough to make me switch to another service, as the majority of my network is still on Twitter. It will be interesting to see what happens though, as you and a number of my other contacts are commenting that this is a major issue. Presumably other services that might offer SMS updates will also ultimately have to suck up this cost, or start charging us for it.

Stéphane · 1 year ago

Euh : DM ??? (mon ignorance... mais cette abréviation me dit rien ... comme tellement de choses sont possible)

Pour Twitter, j'avoue ne jamais avoir compris le modèle économique qui fonctionnait autour des sms. Soit ils avaient un excellent deal, soit cela leur tunait à fond. Bref, un opérateur se met quelques centimes dans la poche normalement à chaque sms envoyé... je ne suis même pas sûr que si on puisse payer que cela soit intéressant. Si tu as 1500 amis qui reçoivent tes sms, qui paient toi... et plus t'as d'amis twitter, plus tu payes... mais la logique voudrait alors que tu paies plutôt les messages reçus, mais là tu limites vite ton champ d'amis. Bref... va falloir trouver un autre moyen pour contourner les frais exhorbitants de nos opérateurs...