Twitter people! Start putting Advertisements please! Some of us Canadians are pissed!
Today, Twitter decided to cut off SMS delivery service to us Canadians. Guess who got pissed off first? ME! So I am boycotting this regime, and telling TWITTER OWNERS to start infesting their site with advertisements. They will make thousands off of us. I don’t care. Everyone makes money off everyone else. Nothing is free or given free to people without a price anymore. Spare us the drama that you wrote on your blog today, and just put stupid advertisements! Make money and stop making this awesome service limited or not 100% functional for everyone!
This is what Twitter wrote on their status blog today:
Canadian SMS service
Unexpected changes in our billing have forced us into a difficult situation with our Canadian SMS service. We cant afford to support this service given our current arrangement with our providers (where costs have been doubling for the past several months.) As a result, effective today we are no longer delivering outbound SMS over our Canadian shortcode (21212).
The ability to update Twitter over SMS will still be supported over 21212. But we know that this is only part of the experience and we want to make Twitter work in the way folks want regardless of where they live.
There is a realistic, scalable SMS solution for Canada (and the rest of the world.) Were working on that and will post more details on the Twitter blog as we make progress.
Grr!! 
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They stopped it for the UK too… stupid!!!
@Moey Halawaty – really? Holy crap. They are going bankrupt. Do they need donations? Is 100,000’s of members not enough! I swear they just need ads. That’s all they need!
maybe i missed something, but didn’t the last paragraph say they are working on something? hate to be contrary (ok, that’s a lie), but i’m sure it’ll get taken care of. just wait for the eventual buy out by google or yahoo, you’ll have all the ads you want and 3 separate log ins. oddly by the time that all gets finished up, no one will want to use it anymore…
anyway, hi (=
@chris – I know they are working on something. I just don’t like it when they cut off an entire service until they fix it. Who knows when they will fix it.
we have watwet.com in jordan which is really good.
They did this to us Brits awhile ago… I have adblock so they can use all the ads they want
OK Mona, you need to make yourself a nice cup of tea and chill out a bit. Twitter owes us nothing so lets not get to worked up. I know its easy for me to say, since I don’t use the SMS feature and barely stop by the site. Actually, I guess that’s why I like it so much, just sitting here spewing crap about something that means so little to me. Ahhh …. relaxing! Anyways, you’ll get through this … lets not get too excited about this whole ad thing quite yet.