Posts tagged “sms”

Twitter does not have any competitorsMay 26, 2008

Twitter's real competition isn't Friendfeed or Pownce. It's nobody, because nobody else does what Twitter actually does: SMS and XMPP. Twitter isn't a web service, it's a global mobile communications platform accessible to literally every person with a phone. That's not a niche. That's everything.

What people don't get about TwitterApr 22, 2008

Twitter's value is its SMS interface. Friendfeed and Pownce miss this entirely. Without SMS, they're not real competitors, no matter how many people switch during outages.

Have found another pretty good site for text messaging -- free SMS, costs 5p per message if you...Apr 10, 2001

Found a solid free SMS site: TextMessenger.co.uk. Send up to three messages free, then 5p each. Clean interface too.