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Twitter kills off SMS notifications and posting in most countries

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Re: Twitter kills off SMS notifications and posting in most countries

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Post by heleninboodler »

icedchai wrote: post #76
heleninboodler wrote: post #54

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Interesting how different our experiences are. This is a two-month old iphone, fully patched and with very few apps installed. Same experience as my previous iphone and android phones. Just verified: I sat and watched the "loading" spinner for over three minutes before starting to write this response. No idea how long it actually took, but it finished with just a blank white page with a twitter logo and a search bar.…

If you try it on wifi, is it still slow?

Yes, as mentioned, it's regardless of what kind of connection I'm on.

Re: Twitter kills off SMS notifications and posting in most countries

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Post by jedberg »

munificent wrote: post #88
gurkendoktor wrote: post #65

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Only if you use the "old" layout, who knows how long that'll last.

It will be a very sad day (for me, at least) when that happens.

I want to say that my reddit usage will go way down, but I know that's probably not the case.

On the other hand, I know a few of the old-timers at reddit still use old.reddit, so that might help keep it alive.

In theory reddit can rebuild as an alternate front end, or someone else could do it. A good chuck of it is open source. You'd have to do a lot of work integrating the new APIs though.

Re: Twitter kills off SMS notifications and posting in most countries

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Post by dalyons »

tracker1 wrote: post #18

I'm curious how much money Twitter is saving by cutting the option.

twitter had/has so called "zero rated" deals with most carriers, cut way back when. They dont(at least they didnt used to) pay anything per SMS, for most carriers. However, the infrastructure to go direct to that many international carriers is/was quite complicated, from both a technical & ongoing business management PoV (carriers are awful to deal with in both categories). i imagine the savings from no longer having to maintain either are quite substantial.

Re: Twitter kills off SMS notifications and posting in most countries

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Post by cfv »

Twitter has degenerated into one of the least friendly things to build an app for. I've had a better dev experience with Gab, ffs.

Not only that, but also their community building and tending is abysmal too, so your app will end up used mostly by the kind of user that brings infinitesimal value with them.

Twitter isn't worth it.

Re: Twitter kills off SMS notifications and posting in most countries

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Post by Polylactic_acid »

cfv wrote: post #104

Twitter has degenerated into one of the least friendly things to build an app for. I've had a better dev experience with Gab, ffs. Not only that, but also their community building and tending is abysmal too, so your app will end up used mostly by the kind of user that brings infinitesimal value with them. Twitter isn't worth it.

Gab runs on mastodon which was designed to be the most friendly thing possible to hack on so its not surprising.

Re: Twitter kills off SMS notifications and posting in most countries

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Post by schandur »

djsumdog wrote: post #46
ilikehurdles wrote: post #15

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Twitter used to be a wonderful platform to hack on. I feel like the early days of developer and poweruser friendliness helped keep the platform from dying in some niche microblogging category.

It was originally a base for which people made all kinds of neat things like TwitPic. But then Twitter started integrating everything and competing with all the people who made them great; sometimes even suing them. I started using Twitter via SMS and before the age of modern smart phones (I was on my Palm Treo. The girl in the cube behind me just got an EDGE eyePhone) and for all my university friends, we used it as…

One favorite recollection of the Twitter API usage was this guy who hooked up a pressure sensor to a Twitter account, and placed the sensor under his newly married friend's bed - and the thing would tweet when the couple got in bed. [0]

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2009/12/12/newlywed-sex-tweets/

Re: Twitter kills off SMS notifications and posting in most countries

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Post by amatecha »

traden210 wrote: post #98
amatecha wrote: post #83

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Yep, free dynamic DNS still exists, for example NoIP https://www.noip.com/ However, you have to refresh it each month by filling out a "I'm still using it" web form they email you. So, you can't just set it & forget it.

I use Namecheap, but other providers offer it as well: free dyndns service with a domain - no monthly checkin required.

Wait Namecheap has dyndns service as well? Nice, I shall check into this! I have a few domains with them. Thanks :)

Re: Twitter kills off SMS notifications and posting in most countries

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Post by rrdharan »

w1 wrote: post #79
seancoleman wrote: post #5

This reminds me of how I hacked twitter 10+ years ago to get free SMS delivery for a web app I built. Before Twilio, custom SMS notification delivery was hard and expensive. At the time, twitter allowed you to receive SMS notifications of tweets posted to a followed account. I created a private account and used twitter's API to post tweets to with the notification content I wanted to send. I then had "dummy" accounts…

Lol I may or may not currently be using a Twitter account and cron to broadcast any changes to my (non-static) home ip address, encrypted, so I can ssh into my workstation when I'm on vacation.

inadyn works well and supports a bunch of services (it’s been around since 2003 at least..).

https://github.com/troglobit/inadyn

A lot of domain registrars offer dynamic DNS for free using the original protocol or variants supported by inadyn. I’ve been using domains.google for the past 5 years and been pretty happy with it.

Re: Twitter kills off SMS notifications and posting in most countries

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Post by rrdharan »

peterburkimsher wrote: post #81
seancoleman wrote: post #5

This reminds me of how I hacked twitter 10+ years ago to get free SMS delivery for a web app I built. Before Twilio, custom SMS notification delivery was hard and expensive. At the time, twitter allowed you to receive SMS notifications of tweets posted to a followed account. I created a private account and used twitter's API to post tweets to with the notification content I wanted to send. I then had "dummy" accounts…

I did a similar thing with Google Calendar! Sadly they shut down their SMS notifications in November 2018.

“Sadly”

https://usa.kaspersky.com/blog/spam-through-google-services/...

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