Why Twitter cut SMS in Europe: Interview with Evan Williams
by Mike Butcher
on September 9, 2008

I chatted with Evan Williams, co-founder of Twitter about their recent decision to cut SMS services in Europe for a special ‘news’ edition of the Butcher’s Bunch podcast (on iTunes) listen below.

If the player doesn’t work here is the MP3.

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  • http://davidlanger.co.uk David Langer

    I’d be interested to see the results of a poll entitled:

    “How much would you be willing to pay per month for 1000/unlimited Twitter texts?”

    Not getting text @ replies either renders the ‘communication utility’ much less useful or is forcing me to keep Twhirl open the whole time to actually have conversations.

    I’d also be interested to hear what workarounds people are using?

  • http://www.sminkybang.com/ Tom Allender

    The combination of “it would have been a lot more effect to build that option [premium SMS]” and “business model, what’s that?” is hilarious!

    Hello Twitter. Sell SMS traffic for non-US markets. This will help you make money.

  • http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009/03/26/twitter-re-launches-sms-in-the-uk-but-only-if-youre-on-vodafone/ Twitter re-launches SMS in the UK – But only if you’re on Vodafone

    [...] failed in the UK. TechCrunch Europe caught up with co-founder Ev Williams at TechCrunch 50 to quiz him about this very [...]

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    Yes! Sell SMS traffic for non-US markets. This will help you make money.

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