Twitter slowly turning back on the SMS spigot
Back in November of last year, Canadian Twitter users were outraged when the service had to end its support for inbound SMS (text messages) updates due to rising costs. Today brings good news for some of these users: SMS support is back if you happen to be a Bell Mobility subscriber.
Apparently, Twitter’s newly hired director of mobile business development, Kevin Thau, brokered the deal to get SMS support turned back on, and Bell had the "enthusiasm and eagerness to make this happen," Twitter co-founder Biz Stone wrote on the company blog today. Thau is currently Twitter’s only business guy, attempting to do deals to make the service money. He seems to realize that SMS is an important part of the service for a lot of users. He recently told Forbes that the number of text messages passing through Twitter’s systems grew 1,000 percent in the past year.
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