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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 I wonder though, with increasing adoption in data-capable smartphones, will twitter-by-SMS eventually become outdated, and the 140-character limit simply stay as a relic of the good ol’ days?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]
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Simon Sage
Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
