Comments on: T-Mobile Turns Off Twitter?

By: carly

carly — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:43:19 +0000

This is not true. I have T Mobile, and use it for Twitter, and have not been charged any money at all.

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By: Maveno.us Blog » Blog Archive » T-Mobile’s Unscrupulous Policy of Blocking External SMS Shortcodes

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:57:51 +0000

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By: T-Mobile blockiert Twitter ?

T-Mobile blockiert Twitter ? — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 22:37:29 +0000

[...] T-Mobile Kunden in den USA und Kanada nicht mehr möglich diesen SMS Dienst zu nutzen. In einer Mail vom T-Mobile Kundenservice wird behauptet das Twitter ein nicht autorisierter Dienst sei und nun nicht mehr über T-Mobile [...]

By: macbikegeek

macbikegeek — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:07:10 +0000

Statement from T-Mobile on their website:

http://www.t-mo...ment+on+Twitter

That’s the good news. Still can’t get send to work from my phone…

By: zac echola

zac echola — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 02:17:06 +0000

Got this in the ol’ email today:

Dear Zac Echola:

My name is Marianne Maestas and I am with the Executive Customer Relations department of T-Mobile. I am contacting you on behalf of Mr. Robert Dotson in regards to the email that you sent him over the weekend.

Twitter users are welcome to stay connected through T-Mobile service. Rumors that T-Mobile blocks the service are false. T-Mobile confirmed with Twitter that there was a technical issue between the two companies’ systems that temporarily prevented some customers from utilizing the service this past weekend. That issue has since been resolved and the companies are working to prevent such incidents from re-occurring.

Should you have any further questions regarding this matter, please feel free to contact Customer Care at 800-937-8997. Thank you.

Marianne Maestas,
Executive Customer Relations Specialist,
Office of the President,

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:11:04 +0000

You might find this interesting:

http://blog.bib...n-t-mobile.html

By: T-Mobile: Fought with Twitter, Made Up with Twitter?

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By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:13:21 +0000

There are still plenty of ways to access Twitter (and I hope T-Mobile doesn’t block those as well!)… These have probably already been mentioned in 58 previous comments, but…

(1) Twitter via Google Talk
(2) Twitter via the m.twitter.com site
(3) Twitter via an installable Twitter client

I hope I get to keep my mobile Twitter… It’s what keeps me going during really boring meetings!

By: Markus Fine

Markus Fine — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 22:26:06 +0000

It’s T-Mobile’s playground, and they should be able to do whatever they want with it. If twitter is doing something off-side, you can’t cry if they get spanked.

By: Alexis Brion

Alexis Brion — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 16:12:51 +0000

T-Mobile is a monopoly in home land, Germany. This is the attitude they are used to.

By: Bob K Mertz

Bob K Mertz — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 07:36:50 +0000

It appears that the issue still isn’t 100% resolved. I’ve been having a few issues over the last hour, as have other people. But I think we’re on the right track at least!

http://blog.bib...uite-there.html

By: Intercon

Intercon — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 05:11:04 +0000

@42, update – Twitter downtime now revised to 4 hours instead of 12, and moved to midnight hours, and more reasonably (less arrogantly) worded.. good and great.. little changes but big improvements, deserve to be loved by your community.

> http://blog.twi...ed-shorter.html

> Saturday, December 15, 2007

> Downtime Rescheduled, Shorter

> We announced on Friday that we were going to be doing some maintenance on Twitter all day today. It turns out we were able to do most of the work without taking Twitter offline. It may have been better referred to as a “maintenance window” but we wanted to make sure you were aware just the same.

However, to make the final move to our new data center we will definitely need take Twitter offline for about four hours while we copy the database over. So, please take note of the newly scheduled down-time for Twitter: 10PM—2AM PST starting Sunday evening. Thanks!

By: Ruggy

Ruggy — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 03:01:38 +0000

The twits…

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 02:57:00 +0000

T-Mobile can block incoming messages by turning off the shortcode but you can actually still send messages to T-Mobile subs by other means inlcuding International carriers (although these are unreliable as experienced by some users). The “more messages – more revenue” argument seems logical enough, but there are a long list of things that T-Mobile puts ahead of revenue when it comes to services.

By: j

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 02:53:19 +0000

yeah, it’s working for me.

By: Michael Bauser

Michael Bauser — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 02:06:52 +0000

Technically, you have to be "an authorized service" with every phone company, if you want to use a shorter-than-seven-digit number. That's what people here aren't getting: Any phone company is allowed to do this. By the way, Twitter just claimed T-Mobile supports Twitter again. They don't give details.

By: twofones

twofones — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:49:07 +0000

Twitter …

The more we use things like text and picture messaging the more we come to expect that they will always work for us – like email or making a call. But the fact of the matter is that SMS services…

By: Sean McCune

Sean McCune — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 00:05:10 +0000

So you have to be an “authorized third-party service provider” with T-Mobile in order for you to send SMS messages to T-Mobile subscribers? If I was a T-Mobile customer I’d cough up the 200 bucks and be gone. Even AT&T and Verizon seem to be coming to their senses a bit. But T-Mobile’s plowing ahead with the “you’ll get what service *we* decide to give you”model.

By: Anyone

Anyone — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 22:59:37 +0000

LOL, recipient pays? Sorry, just wondering what the heck, for us it’s “you say, you pay” sort of deal all over: under 10 euro cents per text for pretty much any plan plus text packages with 1000 messages under 10€/month, no limitations of third party apps that I’m aware of… enjoy the corporate America (but all the sympathy for anyone affected, net neutrality might be worth the fight you might have to take on so that this sort of thing doesn’t have to spread any further)

This might be a good read
http://www.micr...er_may_fac.html

By: john doerr

john doerr — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 22:57:47 +0000

If Twitter people are reading this – what is your aggregator telling you? (lemme guess – they don’t know much). They are the ones with a line directly into the SMSC tech/pr/marketing engine and can get the official answer far quicker than anyone else.

Neustar are useless (except for ripping us off with their fee structure).

TMO are the most cocky, incomprehensibly greedy telco in the SMS B2C space. No free content, most restrictive campaign policies – the list goes on. This is not really surprising at all.