Twitter ye not

So you're fascinated by the twitter micro-blogging service and you want to use it in the UK.

FAIL.

Why? The whole basis of twitter is to use SMS to send and receive "tweets". You text twitter with your update, 140 characters max, and that then gets sent out via sms to any of your followers (people who have opted to receive your tweets).

It got way too expensive for twitter to keep paying mobile operators large fees for sending bulk texts so they shut off this part of the service. You can still send sms to twitter and update your network.....useful if you have a large network in tthe USA, Canada and India.....bloody pointless over here.

However, you can still receive updates from twitter via email using TweetByMail.com or twittermail.com. It seems like a simple use of the API and as such why the hell haven't twitter added this option for users outside of SMS supported areas?

I've just signed up for tweetbymail so I'll let post a review soon. In the meantime, c'mon twitter, the solution is pretty obvious...I know it strays slightly from your core modus operandi but not adding the feature is an epic fail.

UPDATE: I also get the stamp of fail....honestly sometimes my lack of common sense is astounding...I am on an unlimited data plan with T-Mobile, using a blackberry curve, so....most people would think "I bet there's a client for twitter on the berry"....not me...oh no...bashing about with email for ages....muppet. Fail Jeremy...FAIL!

I have just loaded TwitterBerry onto my handheld so...review of that soon too.

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