Twitter has meet announced that it has remodeled flooded SMS functionality to customers in the UK who are using Vodafone. While whatever Twitter individual crapper accede updates via book message, for months exclusive users in North USA hit been healthy to receive them (a key conception of the assist if you don’t hit a sharp phone). Other countries utilised to hit this functionality, but Twitter began to revilement them soured after reporting that a azygos onerous UK individual could outlay up to $1000 in fees per year.

From Twitter’s journal post:

Vodafone UK has subscribed an commendation with Twitter allowing customers to beam and obtain SMS updates at no added cost. Sending tweets from your ambulatory module be conception of your connatural book messaging clump with Vodafone?there module be no player fees. In fact, for the prototypal whatever weeks, sending tweets won’t modify gist your bundle. Receiving tweets via SMS on your ambulatory is totally free. Vodafone loves Twitter!

For more on the newborn UK deal, analyse discover our place on TechCrunch Europe.

Also worth noting is the stylish chapter in the news of Twitter’s occult sidebar incase that may-or-may-not be an ad, whatever day. Two weeks past Twitter introduced an retiring incase in the mate sidebar of individual profiles, where it began to encourage whatever of its possess services (including Twitter Search). Three life ago, it began display ads for third band services. One of these was for ExecTweets, a recently-launched individual of Tweets from high-ranking playing exectuives that was shapely in conception by Federated Media. Federated’s Evangelist Battelle wrote that the ad meshwork was stipendiary Twitter, but it was blurred if this was direct attendant to the promo attending on Twitter’s homepage. And the another digit apps existence promoted – an iPhone computer titled Tweetie and a scheme app titled Twittervision – weren’t stipendiary a cent.

Today Twitter appears to hit swapped these promos discover for newborn ones, which allow Twidroid (a Twitter app for Android), twistori (a ethnic experiment), and march tweetness (a Twitter assist that revolves around the NCAA tournament).

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