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Loving Twe2
You may remember my recent post about the Twe2 service powered by Wadja which offers free Twitter SMS for @reply and DMs.
I have been using the service for a couple of weeks, and I am totally hooked! I love getting a real-time text message every single time someone DMs me, and it’s dead easy to save mobile phones or email addresses directly onto my phone.
I decided to opt out of the @reply option as receiving too many text messages was a little irritating and also drained my battery!
In a nutshell, I think that Twe2 really adds value when it comes to DMs and although it’s ‘nice to have’, I keep thinking that iPhone apps represent a threat to this service.
What do you think?
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Free Twitter SMS alerts in the UK return thanks to Wadja
about 1 year ago - 7 comments
Last Friday, a friendly PR dropped me an email to inform me that Wadja.com, the mobile web, media and messaging service, will power Twe2 free Twitter SMS alerts, allowing users to receive @replies and DMs to Twitter users both in the UK and worldwide. Last year free text message updates from Twitter were stopped in
about 1 year ago
We don’t think the iphone is much of a threat to the service.
After all we are pushing notifications to your phone, with the iphone twitter clients you activly have to open up an application and pull the tweets.
What will be interesting for the future of SMS in general is when the majority of mobile phones support PUSH notifcations (through twitter or any other service).
Thanks for the blog about twe2.
Paul Kinlan. @PaulKinlan
about 1 year ago
Paul – point taken!
It just seems to me that iPhone users have got used to using apps, and may not see a real benefit in signing up .
I just wanted to point out once again that I love Twe2 and I feel that it definitely improves the overall Twitter experience.
about 1 year ago
I’d love to agree Lolly but after your recommendation I tried it out and set it up just for direct messages. It was great! Then Twe2 stopped working a while back and when it did work, the texts were often delayed by a couple of hours. Had high hopes for this too after you mentioned it initially.
about 1 year ago
That’s weird because it’s all working fine for me… Only had 5-minute delays on a couple of occasions – nothing serious.
Anyhow I am sure it’s all valuable feedback to Twe2!
about 1 year ago
Hi guys,
Lolly, a lot of iphone users have said they don’t see the point, but seeing as there are no background tasks yet, SMS is they only push notification that you can get
Michael, we notice sometimes that the networks block or delay the messages we send. We activley working with the networks and our gateway ensure the highest deliverability as possible.
Thanks,
Paul.