Twitter SMS fever returns to Canada courtesy of Rogers and Fido
Big news today for our friends up north who have been plagued with cold sweats and night tremors ever since November when SMS service was disabled in Canada. When the service was initially killed, Twitter cited billing issues as the reason. It may have taken a while to resolve those issues, but Rogers has just announced a partnership with Twitter that will revive SMS and allow users to both send and receive tweets via text. What’s more, the new deal applies to both Rogers and Fido customers. Canadians, rejoice! Shortcode 21212 has officially been revived and any and all texts exchange will be covered by your SMS plan. In other words, feature phone users no longer have to worry about how to tell all their friends about the string of minutia that combines to make up each day. Woo!
AT&T is going to probably go bonkers about my Twitter, and the fact that 10 days into this billing month, I’ve used 6,104 SMS messages thanks to Twitter updates.
Thank God for unlimited messaging!!!
When does this go live? Cause it ain’t working for me yet. Guess I go back to twitterspy
Twitter is fucking stupid.
Rogers has an incoming monthly cap of 2500. Anything over 2500 is 5cents or 15cents.
I have already move my twitting habit w/ TwitterBerry.
Hey there – I’m the social media guy at Rogers. The Twitter service is in the process of being activated and will be up later today. Also wanted to let Tom know that we offer an unlimited text plan for $15 or an unlimited messaging bundle for $20.
@Keith
Do you know starting July 7th, Rogers will be charging 15 cents to receive a text without a messaging plan? To all Robbers Wireless customers, don’t tweet without a plan.
http://howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1524581 (Source: Howard Forums)
Wohoo!
Finally, I knew they would have to make a move after Bell started offer it. (not that I would switch to bell, but I’m sure there are people who would. I use it for so many of my projects, and as good as tiny twitter is on my winmo, it’s still not the same.
I found out when I got a bunch of SMS’s this morning.
Actually, Bell Mobility was first to bring the service back to Canada in February of this year, giving clients the ability to both send and receive tweets. For full details, visit http://www.bce.ca/en/news/releases/bm/2009/02/24/75105.html
Thanks Tom. Incoming texts will remain free on Rogers Wireless for anyone on a text messaging plan. Since 94% of texts are sent within plan, most won’t be impacted. And plans start at just $5.