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Twitter: SMS for AXIS Indonesia
As director of mobile products and partnerships at Twitter, one thing that always makes me smile is the growing demand for sending and receiving tweets via SMS. The ease of composing a text message combined with the "interruptiveness" of getting an alert for an account you follow is a powerful combination. This has always been the aspect of Twitter that excites me most. It's cool to think that a café in Jakarta can write their Twitter username on a chalkboard and tell people to text "follow username" to our shortcode for alerts about the daily special.
Today we are are announcing a partnership with AXIS (@axisgsm) in Indonesia to offer tweets via SMS on the shortcode 89887 (TWTTR). So if you live in Jakarta, Surabaya, Bandung, Medan, Semarang, or anywhere in between, send "START" to 89887 to activate your phone. To learn about all the useful commands we support via SMS click here.
If your country isn't supported with Twitter SMS, we're working with lots of folks around the globe and it's possible that your network will be up and running soon.
posted by @kevinthau at 6:52 PM
via blog.twitter.com
wonder when any of networks in Maldives be smart enough to get their few thousands penny out of this...
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Twitpocalypse Tomorrow
You may recall that a couple of weeks ago, we were on the verge of the second Twitpocalypse. Originally, Twitter’s development team intended to manually trigger the event on September 11, but at the last minute thought better of doing it at the end of the week (that was a Friday) and instead pushed out the event. It now looks like it will happen tomorrow at 11:30 AM PST, an update in the Twitter Development Talk Google Group states today.
I could go into what the Twitpocalypse is for the fifth time, but if you really want to know, just read our previous posts. Or read what developer Ryan Sarver has to say:
For those of you unaware of what the Twitpocalypse is (hopefully no one by now), Alex previously noted “the Twitter operations team will artificially increase the maximum status ID to 4294967296 … If your Twitter API application stores status IDs, please be sure that your datastore is configured to handle integers of that size.”
Basically, the tweet ID (an ID number given to every tweet sent out) will hit the 32-bit unsigned integer limit tomorrow. That will cause any third party Twitter apps not coded for 64-bit to start doing odd things, and potentially fail. The Twitpocalypse will not affect twitter.com at all.
Also note that the official Twitpocalypse counter is still off by a few days. Again, that’s because Twitter is manually triggering this event early to be able to better deal with the event. Sarver notes that his team will be available in IRC for third-party devs that need help.
Hopefully, most of your favorite third-party Twitter apps learned from the first Twitpocalypse and updated their code to 64-bit, so there shouldn’t be too many issues.
The horror…
via techcrunch.com
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