If you’ve been lamenting the loss of SMS support for Twitter here in the UK, you might be pleased with this recent announcement:

Vodafone UK has signed an agreement with Twitter allowing customers to send and receive SMS updates at no additional cost. Sending tweets from your mobile will be part of your normal text messaging bundle with Vodafone—there will be no extra fees. In fact, for the first few weeks, sending tweets won’t even affect your bundle. Receiving tweets via SMS on your mobile is totally free. Vodafone loves Twitter!

But what about the rest of us, who aren’t on Vodafone? In August 2008, Twitter founder Biz Stone was quoted as saying “Even with a limit of 250 messages received per week, it could cost Twitter about $1,000 per user, per year to send SMS outside of Canada, India, or the US”. But how much money were they making from us UK folk? The service used an 07624 number, which is allocated to Manx, handled by Tyntec and highly likely gave Twitter a revenue share for each inbound message.

via Twitter Blog: Full SMS Service for Vodafone UK Customers!.

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