Comments on: Updated: Twitter users on Vodafone UK reporting “no escape” from the firehose of Tweets

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Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:56:14 +0000

[...] Readers may remember that back in March, Vodafone UK ‘restored‘ the ability for customers to send and receive Tweets by SMS, although it didn’t launch without a few glitches. [...]

By: name

name — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:29:00 +0000

Best Wishes!,

By: TINTAENRED

TINTAENRED — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:13:04 +0000

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By: James

James — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:14:07 +0000

It’s “cried foul”, not “cried fowl”, BTW.

By: Mike Butcher

Mike Butcher — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:05:06 +0000

FYI this post has now been updated – Twitter says it has fixed the problem. See the post for details.

By: FiestaHendersonNV

FiestaHendersonNV — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:50:25 +0000

totally agree with you!!!

By: RealVermin

RealVermin — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:59:04 +0000

A summary of my experience here: http://bit.ly/lxuS

By: Why Vodafone Sucks - Real Vermin

Why Vodafone Sucks - Real Vermin — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:57:25 +0000

[...] this article on the amazing techcrunch:I think I can cope without SMS support for the timebeing. If you’re going [...]

By: robtsmith

robtsmith — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:16:50 +0000

I just use http://www.twe2.com !

By: nikmagick

nikmagick — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:14:58 +0000

yep = round and around go my messages !

By: Jules Morgan

Jules Morgan — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:14:13 +0000

Dugg for ‘noobs’.

By: Trialia

Trialia — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:37:15 +0000

Yep, it’s been making me crazy for the last three days, too – it’s anything I tweet by text, and it won’t stop! Tweets sent from anything *but* text aren’t affected.

By: Martyn Davies

Martyn Davies — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:10:04 +0000

I’ve found it quite useful with Twitter set to forward direct messages only, and it is useful to be able to send tweets via an SMS to 86444. However, I agree that the “firehose” with all messages on cannot work. I switched it on yesterday afternoon and this morning had 60 texts to go through…

By: fb791883787

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:47:19 +0000

Summary of my experience:

1) Twitter didn’t give much help about how to use mobile. confused for a while until i saw how to select followers to receive tweets from. shame no option to get all @replies

2) worked great after that initially

3) sent “on” late last wk. kept getting messages say “on”

4) tried sending “off”, then got on, off, on, off…

5) sent tweet. only realised when back home it kept repeating

6) tried turning tweets on/off via web. no good

7) tried deleting and reinstating device profile. no difference except now get repeated device authorised tweets as well

no get three repeating tweets that I sent via SMS and repeated on/off/authorised texts to mobile phone. decreased somewhat in frequency, but v annoying

conclusion: Twitter problem. but just now they have bigger whales to fry

By: Ryan Cullen

Ryan Cullen — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:59:38 +0000

I doubt this is a Vodafone issue. The same is going on with the Canada shortcode too.

By: James Body

James Body — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:29:04 +0000

Again, proof that it takes a certain amount of care, skill and intelligence to make an application work well.

In it’s present form the Voda Twitter SMS app is fatally flawed!