vodafone to charge for twitter updates from 18 August
Posted July 15th, 2009 at 17:10 by Kaweh
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I never really checked the terms and conditions of the free twitter updates Vodafone offered their customers. Looking at them now, it seems that they always have been for a limited time only. This smells dubiously of Drug Pusher tactics, where your first few doses are free, but you are hooked afterwards.
People are already complaining on Twitter about the Vodafone change, which was announced via SMS this afternoon. I would not be surprised if vodafone is a trending topic sometime today.
From 18 August 2009 updating your twitter status via sms will cost you the same as your standard sms charge. Receiving tweets by sms to your phone will still be free. For how long, is unclear though. I can see Vodafone make quite a few bucks from all the teens who send their tweets from their pay-as-you-go mobiles, where you still have to pay for every single sms you send.
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