Twitter are stopping SMS

Twitter are stopping all SMS for many territories due to cost. They don't need to send sms. If they had an s60 application similar to that by Jaiku they would incur no extra costs. We would simply take advantage of our dataplans to download the messages at any time that the application is running.

Worldwide we are going to find that there are a lot of dissapointed users. At the same time the centralised conversation that twitter managed to encourage will spread across a number of platforms. As a result twhirl is a good alternative whilst waiting for things to settle.

If the companies can't behave then we'll rely on Air applications to aggregate and monitor what's going on. I already watch seesmic, twitter, identi.ca and friendfeed with twhirl.

All this to say something simple. If you want me to keep coming to your site provide me with the best user experience possible. If not then I'll be as uncommitted as possible. So will everyone else