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I finally understand why I don’t like Twitter

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By: , IntoMobile
Monday, April 9th, 2007 at 12:59 AM

Ewan nailed it:

Texting, in this context, is totally last century.  It needs to be an app on your phone.

Bingo! I don’t even like push email, I prefer opening the Gmail application when I have the time to actually go thru my messages.

I can’t imagine what it would be like getting text messages all day that are complete rubbish. I don’t care what my friends are doing this very second; I only care about what they’re doing when I have the free time to sit on my butt and ponder when our next evening of debauchery will take place.

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • PhoneBoy

    The only SMSes I get on my phone from Twitter are when people do a direct message. Otherwise, I just check in via the web on the phone. Either Twitter’s site directly or the WAP formatted version that 30boxes does. They both work.

  • Stefan Constantinescu

    I thought people actually liked the whole getting 100′s of text messages a day thing?

  • Chris Martin

    I 2nd Jaiku. The S60 app is awesome, especially for 3rd edition.

    I have a script running that posts my Jaiku updates over to twitter just to keep my twitter using friends happy.

  • bernard

    Hi stefan,

    Hmm, i don’t like twitter either, but for different reasons.

    I read somewhere today, that it took Twitter for the US to catch on to what Europe has been on for years – SMS.

    Like I said, I don’t like twitter either, but there are an awful lot of people to live and die by SMS. And then there are the under twenty-somethings in Europe.

    I suggest you pay a visit to somewhere in Europe to see exactly what I mean.

    Stand outside (or even inside) any irish bar, and you’ll see the power of SMS.

    bernard