Bell Brings SMS Twittering Back to Canada

Using twitter the old-fashioned SMS way in Canada was getting a tad pricey for the owners, so back in November, they axed outbound tweets by SMS. Luckily, Bell has reintroduced the service, albeit with a 15 cent charge per text tacked on. In the last year, twitter has seen a 900% growth rate – a staggering amount by any means. I wonder though, with increasing adoption in data-capable smartphones, will twitter-by-SMS eventually become outdated, and the 140-character limit simply stay as a relic of the good ol’ days? From a consumer perspective, it’s cheaper to tweet through a data-based application than through SMS, that’s for sure, and clearly Bell can’t handle the extra traffic, resulting in higher costs, which turn off third parties like twitter from using it.

[via Bell]