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Wow… for the first time in a long time it doesn’t suck quite as much living in North America. Turns out (and I guess I should pay closer attention to this) Twitter was paying the price for sending SMS messages to users overseas to the tune of roughly $1000 per user per year! Holy Crizap!

“Twitter has killed its outbound SMS services outside of the United States, Canada or India, and with it a potentially highly lucrative business model in Europe. In the UK you’ll still be able to send Twitter an SMS to update your status, but you won’t be receiving them. Apparently rising rising costs made it impractical, and we have been getting those SMSs for free.”

Hit the link below for more reactions and details on this one. I personally think SMS pricing is a complete ripoff so I can’t blame Twitter on this one. IMHO – SMS messaging should be included automatically in any consumer data plan… and companies like Twitter that provide services over SMS should pay a standard fee based upon total usage to their provider – end of story. Oh, and just incase you feel like signing up for the pre-petition facebook petition here’s a link for that.

(Via TechCrunch UK)

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