http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1640#more-1640
as usual
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 00:50 (fifteen years ago) link
the end of twitter in the UK? er: yes, as far as i can see. i don't want to have to *look* for tweets. i want them to come to me:
Hi,I'm sending you this note because you registered a mobile device to work with Twitter over our UK number. I wanted to let you know that we are making some changes to the way SMS works on Twitter. There is some good news and some bad news.I'll start with the bad news. Beginning today, Twitter is no longer delivering outbound SMS over our UK number. If you enjoy receiving updates from Twitter via +44 762 480 1423, we are recommending that you explore some suggested alternatives.Note: You will still be able to UPDATE over our UK number.Before I go into more detail, here's a bit of good news: Twitter will be introducing several new, local SMS numbers in countries throughout Europe in the coming weeks and months. These new numbers will make Twittering more accessible for you if you've been using SMS to send long-distance updates from outside the UK.Why are we making these changes?Mobile operators in most of the world charge users to send updates. When you send one message to Twitter and we send it to ten followers, you aren't charged ten times--that's because we've been footing the bill. When we launched our free SMS service to the world, we set the clock ticking. As the service grew in popularity, so too would the price.Our challenge during this window of time was to establish relationships with mobile operators around the world such that our SMS services could become sustainable from a cost perspective. We achieved this goal in Canada, India, and the United States. We can provide full incoming and outgoing SMS service without passing along operator fees in these countries.We took a risk hoping to bring more nations onboard and more mobile operators around to our way of thinking but we've arrived at a point where the responsible thing to do is slow our costs and take a different approach. Since you probably don't live in Canada, India, or the US, we recommend receiving your Twitter updates via one of the following methods.m.twitter.com works on browser-enabled phones m.slandr.net works on browser-enabled phones TwitterMail.com works on email-enabled phones Cellity [http://bit.ly/12bw4R] works on java-enabled phones TwitterBerry [http://bit.ly/MFAfJ] works on BlackBerry phones Twitterific [http://bit.ly/1WxjwQ] works on iPhonesTwitter SMS by The NumbersIt pains us to take this measure. However, we need to avoid placing undue burden on our company and our service. 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. It makes more sense for us to establish fair billing arrangements with mobile operators than it does to pass these high fees on to our users.Twitter will continue to negotiate with mobile operators in Europe, Asia, China, and The Americas to forge relationships that benefit all our users. Our goal is to provide full, two-way service with Twitter via SMS to every nation in a way that is sustainable from a cost perspective. Talks with mobile companies around the world continue. In the meantime, more local numbers for updating via SMS are on the way. We'll keep you posted.Thank you for your attention, Biz Stone, Co-founder Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/biz
I'm sending you this note because you registered a mobile device to work with Twitter over our UK number. I wanted to let you know that we are making some changes to the way SMS works on Twitter. There is some good news and some bad news.
I'll start with the bad news. Beginning today, Twitter is no longer delivering outbound SMS over our UK number. If you enjoy receiving updates from Twitter via +44 762 480 1423, we are recommending that you explore some suggested alternatives.
Note: You will still be able to UPDATE over our UK number.
Before I go into more detail, here's a bit of good news: Twitter will be introducing several new, local SMS numbers in countries throughout Europe in the coming weeks and months. These new numbers will make Twittering more accessible for you if you've been using SMS to send long-distance updates from outside the UK.
Why are we making these changes?
Mobile operators in most of the world charge users to send updates. When you send one message to Twitter and we send it to ten followers, you aren't charged ten times--that's because we've been footing the bill. When we launched our free SMS service to the world, we set the clock ticking. As the service grew in popularity, so too would the price.
Our challenge during this window of time was to establish relationships with mobile operators around the world such that our SMS services could become sustainable from a cost perspective. We achieved this goal in Canada, India, and the United States. We can provide full incoming and outgoing SMS service without passing along operator fees in these countries.
We took a risk hoping to bring more nations onboard and more mobile operators around to our way of thinking but we've arrived at a point where the responsible thing to do is slow our costs and take a different approach. Since you probably don't live in Canada, India, or the US, we recommend receiving your Twitter updates via one of the following methods.
m.twitter.com works on browser-enabled phones m.slandr.net works on browser-enabled phones TwitterMail.com works on email-enabled phones Cellity [http://bit.ly/12bw4R] works on java-enabled phones TwitterBerry [http://bit.ly/MFAfJ] works on BlackBerry phones Twitterific [http://bit.ly/1WxjwQ] works on iPhones
Twitter SMS by The Numbers
It pains us to take this measure. However, we need to avoid placing undue burden on our company and our service. 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. It makes more sense for us to establish fair billing arrangements with mobile operators than it does to pass these high fees on to our users.
Twitter will continue to negotiate with mobile operators in Europe, Asia, China, and The Americas to forge relationships that benefit all our users. Our goal is to provide full, two-way service with Twitter via SMS to every nation in a way that is sustainable from a cost perspective. Talks with mobile companies around the world continue. In the meantime, more local numbers for updating via SMS are on the way. We'll keep you posted.
Thank you for your attention, Biz Stone, Co-founder Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/biz
― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 14 August 2008 08:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I never understood why anyone would want tweets pushed to them. I get excited when I receive a text. I don't want to find it's some spazz like me telling the world they've found an odd-coloured bogey up their nose.
― Alba, Thursday, 14 August 2008 09:21 (fifteen years ago) link
it would be nice, when the iphone's push service is switched on, if twitter would push messages down to twitterific - this would solve the 'excited when I receive a text only to find it's about a bogey' problem
― cozwn, Thursday, 14 August 2008 09:31 (fifteen years ago) link
If my phone had let me assign unique message alert tones to numbers like it does with ringtones and voice calls then the problem might have gone away.
― Alba, Thursday, 14 August 2008 09:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Maybe the fundamental problem is that I'm not interested enough in other people.
― Alba, Thursday, 14 August 2008 09:35 (fifteen years ago) link
most of twitter is exquisitely described in metaphor by that news story about the inflatable turd named "Complex Shit" blowing away and breaking actual stuff that matters
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 14 August 2008 09:39 (fifteen years ago) link
of course being me I would say the same for pretty much everything "web 2.0"
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 14 August 2008 09:40 (fifteen years ago) link
actually, i'd follow a tombot twitter feed. furious cynicism at unexpected moments could be fun.
i guess twitterific might step up to the plate here, but then again: it can't run in the background on the iPhone, can it?
(this, incidentally, is my first ILX post from my shiny new iMac.)
― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 14 August 2008 11:28 (fifteen years ago) link
creepy
13.28 cozeny Wondering out loud what we'd need to start a UK group SMS system and take Twitter's market: Ruby developers, time, money, and Red Bull... ? 9 minutes ago from web
13.37 Hi, cozeny.
tweetsms (tweetsms) is now following your updates on Twitter.
Check out tweetsms's profile here:
http://twitter.com/tweetsms
You may follow tweetsms as well by clicking on the "follow" button.
Best, Twitter
tweetsms http://www.tweetSMS.com will be available worldwide across almost all carriers. We also plan to deploy an ad-based service for free updates. 38 minutes ago from web
@PurpleKitchen check out www.tweetsms.com about 2 hours ago from web in reply to PurpleKitchen
just uploaded http://www.tweetsms.com to help all of those international SMS users! about 2 hours ago from web
― cozwn, Thursday, 14 August 2008 12:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Used it cause I was excited (are you still an early adopter a full year after the SXSW explosion of use?), then didn't for a few months cause I didn't really see the point, now I'm usin it again cause I've had some new local friends start following me.
Good for questions, link-sharing, Microemo bursts, etc.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 14 August 2008 13:25 (fifteen years ago) link
I have a friend who uses this to read his friends' feeds, so I basically only see it from the angle of a person who is constantly checking his phone while I'm trying to have a conversation with him. The first time I heard of Twitter was from him when I finally got exasperated with his constantly checking his phone.
Maybe I'm the one with the problem, but I can't really think of anyone in the world interesting enough for me to want updates on their activities throughout the day. I'd say the only people I could imagine wanting to twitter could be: Drug smuggler, violent prison inmate, Slash-in-his-heyday type rock star, and a dog (if they somehow managed to translate its thoughts into English text).
― rockapads, Thursday, 14 August 2008 14:41 (fifteen years ago) link
don't use it, don't know anyone who does, but i check this one all the time: http://twitter.com/MarsPhoenix
― Roz, Thursday, 14 August 2008 14:51 (fifteen years ago) link
i very very rarely check it on my phone. does mobile use seem to be the prominent use?
― tehresa, Thursday, 14 August 2008 14:55 (fifteen years ago) link
SMS functionality seems to be its USP now that Facebook status updates have taken the mainstream microblogging space.
As I said above, people using it for pushed news bulletins and question-broadcasting rather than personal what-i'm-doing stuff is another application.
― Alba, Thursday, 14 August 2008 15:05 (fifteen years ago) link
(I think you can now do Facebook by SMS in America, actually, but not here)
― Alba, Thursday, 14 August 2008 15:06 (fifteen years ago) link
SMS is a fucking trilobite technology
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 14 August 2008 15:22 (fifteen years ago) link
I followed @johncleese back when his followers were in the double digits.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 14 August 2008 15:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Seriously someone FedEx me a fucking medal already.
how the fuck are they planning to make money? Also, they could easily have charged for this in Europe, and at least started making some actual income for a change.
― stet, Thursday, 14 August 2008 17:38 (fifteen years ago) link
so: brightkite, then. anyone played about with it much? i'm not sure i can particularly be arsed, TBH.
― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 19 August 2008 19:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Twinkle is useful to see if there's trouble on my tram line or the local cafe is on fire.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 19 August 2008 21:27 (fifteen years ago) link
ON IPHONE
Brightkite seems particularly marvelous, actually. Like Twitter with upgrades.
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 19 August 2008 23:20 (fifteen years ago) link
mildly diverting for a bit
http://joshblog.net/projects/roktok/roktok.html
― cozen (cozwn), Sunday, 14 September 2008 23:32 (fifteen years ago) link
well, it would be if only folk would stop talking about coldplay and radiohead
oh
it combines the top artists from last.fm (coldplay, radiohead) with twitter
no potential to divert at all now
― cozen (cozwn), Sunday, 14 September 2008 23:34 (fifteen years ago) link
"Alternate HTML content should be placed here. This content requires the Adobe Flash Player. Get Flash"
Man I fucking hate flash
― -- (stet), Sunday, 14 September 2008 23:34 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm on this goofy thing now:
http://twitter.com/NedRaggett
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 14 September 2008 23:50 (fifteen years ago) link
ned why are you not on the nanowrimo thread
hie thee hence
― genital grinder (roxymuzak), Monday, 15 September 2008 00:04 (fifteen years ago) link
I am now following: http://twitter.com/therealbritney
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 19 October 2008 11:27 (fifteen years ago) link
so i signed up to this to follow shaq, is there anything else for me to do
― :) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Thursday, 27 November 2008 16:43 (fifteen years ago) link
tweet.
― jordans-menendi (tehresa), Thursday, 27 November 2008 16:45 (fifteen years ago) link
https://twitter.com/maxmaxmaxmax
― :) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Thursday, 27 November 2008 16:49 (fifteen years ago) link
^^ tweeted
i even personalized it
cool tweet max
― s1ocki, Thursday, 27 November 2008 18:12 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.justmusicuk.com/spweb/images/publications/medium/JM46521.jpg
― BIG HOOS is those british white steens (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 27 November 2008 18:15 (fifteen years ago) link
thanks guys, feel free to follow me
― :) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Thursday, 27 November 2008 18:17 (fifteen years ago) link
shaq tweets a lot more than u do hoos
― :) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Thursday, 27 November 2008 18:18 (fifteen years ago) link
u personified that shit boss
― BIG HOOS is those british white steens (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 27 November 2008 18:18 (fifteen years ago) link
ay look @ this i am following barack obama
― :) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Thursday, 27 November 2008 18:21 (fifteen years ago) link
i wonder if he tweets during cabinet meetings when he is bored, just under the desk w/ his blackberry
"paulson such a dik lol"
― BIG HOOS is those british white steens (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 27 November 2008 18:23 (fifteen years ago) link
don't even know why i'm on this. oh yes, for shawn elliott. and g.fiddle. and ultragrrl. and you guys. other than that, i can't hardly tweet myself. i always seem to fuck up. and i have very little to say anyway. i r moron
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 27 November 2008 19:56 (fifteen years ago) link
LIVE THE LIFE U IMAGINED, JEEZ I SUCK AT TYPIN, LOL
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 4 December 2008 19:17 (fifteen years ago) link
http://twitter.com/mondosalvo
@Ned: twitter won't let me direct reply to you, but I'm Johnny Fever here and brasstax on Idolator.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 4 December 2008 19:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Ah right!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 4 December 2008 19:46 (fifteen years ago) link
just seen this:
TwitOrFit is Twitter-meets-HotOrNothttp://uk.techcrunch.com/2008/12/15/twitorfit-is-twitter-meets-hotornot/
― djmartian, Monday, 15 December 2008 14:20 (fifteen years ago) link
How did you score?
― Enrique (Raw Patrick), Monday, 15 December 2008 14:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Love how you all engaged with the tweet I posted. Hardly been here all day so catching up now. Thank you ❤️
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 17:13 (one week ago) link
bought a chest freezer like the one in the video, 90% of which are newly identical, in the first year of the pandemic and just restocked it with essentials and junk (cart full of Trader Joe’s frozen bags and boxes) every so often and it’s not near needing defrosting 3.5 years later
my Costco purchase of many tuna steaks was unnecessary but seems freezer-stable
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 21 March 2024 04:02 (one week ago) link
oops
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:474ldquxwzrlcvjhhbbk2wte/bafkreih6ssfnyaauvi7suvj62tzq5si3utzigf4wsb5jqffq4zk2fy4ggi@jpeg
― lag∞n, Friday, 22 March 2024 21:55 (six days ago) link
Look at Snapchat trucking along there. Worth noting that it's recently been explicitly marketing itself as "not social media," and the ways in which it's not probably do have something to do with why it's not doing as terribly as the platforms that usually get more attention.
― jaymc, Friday, 22 March 2024 22:16 (six days ago) link
funny that the supposedly red hot tiktok is down too
― lag∞n, Friday, 22 March 2024 22:18 (six days ago) link
is fb marketplace responsible for their sustained success?
― infinite wiggles (Spottie), Friday, 22 March 2024 23:51 (six days ago) link
yeah and also weird niche groups - in some ways feels like fb is a reddit clone in that respect
― 龜, Saturday, 23 March 2024 00:42 (five days ago) link
I know the place has been getting slowly worse since Elon bought it but it feels like it's reached an inflection point recently. I was on during last night Bucks/Lakers game and most of the Bucks guys I follow just weren't tweeting and the ones that did either wouldn't get put in my timeline, or they did but wound up out of order. When I first loaded up the site 3 of the first 5 tweets were the exact same one (letting me know there's a new Scooter album out, nice). Every time I clicked a tweet there were multiple replies by pornbots. Nearly all the ads are of this disgusting roided out shirtless man pounding raw eggs. A bunch of the discourse was about whether or not the Baltimore bridge incident was caused by DEI. I uhhh do not think this place is coming back.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 13:42 (yesterday) link
yeah if you go on there to search a breaking news story all the result are accounts making "jokes" with gifs or memes or people doing very low quality conspiracy shit, there used to be people who knew what they were talking about giving you the straight dope
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 13:47 (yesterday) link
coupled with the general collapse of journalism as an industry its not great where is news now
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 13:50 (yesterday) link
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7234yom5bhj2mixyciltjrft/bafkreifx6eyjnpgehc6n4kkvmikxrcyxcaxd6m6sjwa4nxgob6bxvtnlwu@jpeg
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 17:21 (yesterday) link
huge if true
― Is he an evil man who makes chocolate or is the chocolate itself evil? (stevie), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 17:24 (yesterday) link
$43 quadrillion is a nice chunk of change
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 17:25 (yesterday) link
I don’t know about the amount of gold that was brought back but I can confirm that they used 650 planes to load it .#PPN #650planes pic.twitter.com/lQ9HrDpUCZ— PPN (@PPN1776) March 27, 2024
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 17:32 (yesterday) link
#650planes
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 17:33 (yesterday) link
Mansa Musa’s got nothing on the Vatican rescue operation.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 17:35 (yesterday) link
interesting how the ai is reproducing lens distortion but it looks weird and wrong
43 million billion dollars were confiscated from the tunnel connecting the Vatican to the island of Maui Hawaii, 1,500 miles long and 15km deep underground. White helmets transported 650 military flights to be stored on a mountain. From this tunnel, thousands of children and… pic.twitter.com/yxGNck9CRg— PPN (@PPN1776) March 26, 2024
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 17:37 (yesterday) link
The limited scope of that community note is kind of funny. Like where to start with the rest of it, but at least we can say that the Vatican and Hawaii are pretty far apart.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 18:54 (yesterday) link
Oh wait, nm, there are more notes now.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 18:55 (yesterday) link
this thing is reminding me of a time when I used to think conspiracy theories were fun. Except that even this has a bunch of maga-ish shit mixed in with it.
― silverfish, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 19:20 (yesterday) link
a little conspiracy goes a long way
― a (waterface), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 19:43 (yesterday) link
Get this: the last time I was on Maui was for a Catholic wedding, and the last Catholic wedding* I attended was on Maui... #ppn
*should note that one of the bride's aunts was earmarked in the program to perform "Ave Maria" and I thought to myself "oh man, that's a lot of pressure" and sure enough she turned out to be ex-opera and casually belted out a remarkable rendition with a smile on her face while winking at folks.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 19:50 (yesterday) link
Loving this exchange over a fart video pic.twitter.com/KjrwoQpZt7— ❤️🔥 (@fclklore) March 27, 2024
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 20:26 (yesterday) link
Cavefart emptor
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 21:15 (yesterday) link