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250 tweets per week limit
2007 November 27
It looks like from I’ll only be able to get 250 tweets sent to my phone a week from Twitter for the foreseeable future.
There is a weekly limit of 250 messages per week on the UK long code
There is no limit on incoming updates to Twitter from your mobile phone, however, you’re limited to 250 SMS messages from Twitter to your mobile phone if you use our international number (+44 762 4801423).
250 is not enough for me! It would be like receiving only 5% of the conversation from all the people I follow.
Hopefully this will change in the future as they strike more deals with other mobile service operators.
Twitter doesn’t charge individuals for sending or receiving messages. In order to provide global messaging, Twitter negotiates with mobile operators and their representatives around the world for reasonable SMS fees. We do this so that folks can use Twitter in as many countries as possible. Until agreements are in place, however, we need to put in limits on the number of messages received per person over the UK long code
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They don’t seem to be counting… I’ve received roughly 30 SMS messages a day for the last 5 days, but on my Twitter page, the count still reads 0/250.
I can understand why they’ve done this – it must be pretty costly for them to be sending the number text messages they send. Maybe they’ll look to make unlimited SMS messages a “premium” feature, instead?
You know, they have 12 step programs for this kind of thing!
@Andrew After reading the page it appears that they want to introduce the free unlimited SMSs everywhere once they have more partners.
I must admit that would be cool and there are plenty of ways to monetize it like including a small advert at the bottom of each text that was 10 -15 chars long.
Making it premium service would be a cool way to monetize it for them but I wonder if it wouldn’t limit adoption of that part of the service and I can’t help but feel that if they impose the limit then they’d limit adoption outside the US for the minute.
@Sara They do? Sign me up
Gosh! 250 messages a week not enough for you? That number would drive me crazy!