Twitter SMS Limits

Posted by Roo - 13/11/07 at 08:11:59 am

I’ve been using Twitter a lot recently. I made my 1000th Tweet this week. By the way, if we’re friends on Facebook and you don’t use Twitter, it’s why and how I update my status so frequently.

Although I follow over 150 people on Twitter, I only have SMS notifications turned on for about a dozen friends. Depending on where I am and what I’m doing, it can be a really nice way to stay in touch with those people. I was, therefore, surprised and disturbed to be sent this warning over the weekend.

Warning re limited inbound Twitter txts

I only have 10 incoming sms updates remaining this week? I wonder what the limit is.

Speaking of text messages, have you noticed a tendency (it may be a UK thing) for the past participle of “to text” to be strangely compressed so that becomes no longer “texted” but the rather uncomfortable “tex’d”?

Update: the weekly limit seems to be 250 incoming messages. More info from Twitter here

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  1. What would the past participle of to twitter be? I’m hoping it would be informed by this.

    Comment by Darren — November 13, 2007 #

  2. The common form of both the noun and the verb is “tweet”. I use Twitter. Ah yes, I saw your tweet. He was just tweeting about his latest blog post. etc.

    Comment by Roo — November 13, 2007 #

  3. I noticed the same thing about the twitter limit this morning – got the text at about 0500 in the morning.

    I tend to follow a lot of people and often receive 200+ SMS per day, which is costing them real money (however discounted they may be buying them at), so in my case it’s understandable.

    Just a shame that the service is no longer quite so ubiquitous now, and I’ll have to actively check the mobile site if I’m out and about.

    Comment by v_impressed — November 13, 2007 #

  4. Could this be the same reason why my phone settings on Twitter automatically (magically?) turns off when I know I’ve set it to On? Hmmm…

    Comment by AJ — November 14, 2007 #

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