02 offer Free Twitter Texts

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Technology
July 13, 2009

O2 have just announced they have teamed up with Twitter to turn Twitter updates into free text messages, meaning @ replies and direct messages can be received as text messages.

“From the start of August, every O2 customer will be able to switch on text notifications within Twitter and receive replies and direct messages completely free. You’ll also be able to send updates to Twitter as part of your normal text message bundle or for the cost of a normal text.”

A fair usage policy applies to for Twitter texts of approximately 600 messages per month. It isn’t clear if you can turn it on for only direct messages (and not @replies). I am not sure if this has such a big attraction for iPhone users but mobile phones with no supported Twitter client it could be good news all round.

Any opinions ?

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Mark Warner says:

July 13, 2009 at 5:54 pm

This is great news for Twitter users… I remember the days when Twitter sent texts directly to users when they received replies / DMs.

I started using ‘Boxcar’ this morning – http://boxcar.io/ – an iPhone app that pushes notifications to your iPhone whenever you receive a mention or DM… I’m really impressed so far, and I may well end up continuing to use it even when o2 start sending out the Twitter texts.

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