The Twitter Effect


The Twitter Effect, originally uploaded by Josh Bancroft.

This is how many text messages Cingular said I sent and received last month. That, and they list out every data access session (which is in use pretty much constantly for email and Exchange Activesync). The bill was 31 pages long, and came in such a fat envelope we thought they had sent us a small book.

Good thing I have an unlimited text messaging plan, or that would have been painful, at $0.15 per tweet. Ouch! Actually, I did get burned by a big phone bill in January, back when I was on Verizon. 280+ messages at $0.10 each. An extra $28 bucks in the phone bill.

Twitter can be an expensive habit, people! Make sure you’re on a text message bundle plan, or turn of text messages from Twitter (but what’s the fun in that?!). ;-)

About Josh Bancroft

Geek. Serial Experimentalist. Selfish, Obsessive, and Easily Distracted. I'm jabancroft most places. TinyScreenfuls.com is my home online.
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    . I bet the telco’s are just fanatic Twitter fans – merely because of all the stinking SMS messages it’s generating and all the revenue they must be raking in. Well my buddy Josh just posted about how he’s happy he has an unlimited texting plan. So my question – now that people have been on twitter for a while and some of the cell phone bills are coming – how much have you spend on twitter sms messages?! Please make a post in the comment section!

  • http://climbtothestars.org Stephanie Booth

    I continue thinking it’s totally barbaric of phone carriers to charge for received text messages. People are being charged for something they can’t control!

    It’s worse than charging people for incoming calls when they’re abroad — at least they can hang up.

  • http://www.northwestnoise.com Tim

    JD wrote a post yesterday speculating on how much $ Twitter must pay in TXT msg’ing charges per month. I turned off TXT msgs on my old Twitter account in January after I racked up $10 in extra charges.

  • http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com Josh Bancroft

    @Stephanie – would you be surprised to know that we pay for incoming calls on our cells phones in the U.S., too? ;-)

  • http://www.techcraver.com/2007/03/23/twitter-sms-charges-and-you/ Twitter and SMS Charges; how much have you spent? « Techcraver.com | Craving tech, craving life!

    [...] I had a thought the other night which I shared on twitter. I bet the telco’s are just fanatic Twitter fans – merely because of all the stinking SMS messages it’s generating and all the revenue they must be raking in. Well my buddy Josh just posted about how he’s happy he has an unlimited texting plan. [...]

  • Joe Perrin

    If you have a (unlimited) data plan and a java enabled device (Phone, SmartPhone, Pocket PC) you should check out Tiny Twitter. It runs on your device and wont cut into your SMS (Text messages) See http://www.tinytwitter.com for more details and the download.

    Hope this helps save you some cash.

  • http://es.engadget.com/2007/03/24/984-sms-por-culpa-de-twitter/ 984 SMS por culpa de Twitter – Engadget Spanish

    [...] mediante web, IM e incluso, si se dispone de un Mac, Twitterrific, un programa específico.ReadEnlace PermanenteEnviar a un amigoComentarios [...]