With an email – and this blog post – Twitter ended the outbound delivery of SMS updates, inbound updates are still OK, but people are a bit peeved at the change.

I’m not a huge SMS receiver of messages, but I do update via SMS and I can’t help thinking that it might have been a smarter decision to cut the free service, but at the same point enable a paid model that would allow SMS-junkies to continue getting their regular fix of 140 character goodness. It would have been EVEN SMARTER to at least ask peoples opinions before the big switch off.

On top of the fail-whale and system instabilities over recent months, this cannot be seen as a positive move.

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