Comments on: Whither SMS and Twitter

By: brainadmin

brainadmin — Mon, 05 May 2008 16:14:18 +0000

@Michael - I don’t have any mobile messaging experience so this is quite interesting to me. Good point about adding a setting for @replies.

By: Michael Beck

Michael Beck — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:31:45 +0000

I use SMS to send Tweets out, but RARELY to receive. Reason? The SMS system isn’t customizable enough. The same settings you have set up for Instant Messaging also apply to SMS.

More specifically: I have most of the people I follow set up to receive send updates to my “device” so I can catch all the tweets when I have IM access. But I don’t want all those updates flooding my text inbox on my phone. You should be able to click some kind of checkbox in settings to only receive @replies on your phone and nothing else.

Or, at the very least, let you specify for each person you follow which devices you want to receive their updates on (IM, Mobile, or Both).

Until Twitter introduces that level of customization, I don’t think they’ll see much of an increase in SMS usage.

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By: brainadmin

brainadmin — Sat, 03 May 2008 18:20:56 +0000

@Nick - doesn’t have to be like-minded individuals either; Twitter is almost like Reuters, Associated Press, Canadian Press, etc. - an almost continuous stream of information, except that it comes from a wide variety of sources, all of which are equal.

By: Nick James

Nick James — Sat, 03 May 2008 16:35:29 +0000

I use it on my PDA every now and then (when there’s a wi-fi connection I can hop on to), but as I’m on Pay-as-you-go with the mobile, it would me an absolute arm and a leg. I can see its design was intended for swift blogging on the move, but I think its evolved from that into what we see today. An information resource for likeminded individuals; almost a news feed, in fact.

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