Twitter has just released an official statement indicating that effective immediately Twitter will no longer be offering outbound SMS in Canada. Shame on Canadian mobile carriers for continuing to squeeze customers at every turn and forcing companies like Twitter to remove services that many people use. Twitter stated that a scalable solution is in the works and will post more details on the Twitter blog as news becomes available. Hope this doesn’t slowdown Twitter adoption rates in Canada.
Twitter stated:
“Unexpected changes in our billing have forced us into a difficult situation with our Canadian SMS service. We can’t afford to support this service given our current arrangement with our providers (where costs have been doubling for the past several months.) As a result, effective today we are no longer delivering outbound SMS over our Canadian shortcode (21212).”
Gigaom has the full story and Twitter statement here.
