The Online Journalism Blog has been busy interviewing many of the companies looking to fill the gap left when Twitter pulled out of the SMS updates market last week. One of those companies is Gradwell dot com, who launched the twittex.com service on Wednesday this week.
You can read the full interview here.
To celebrate the launch of our new Twitter SMS alerts service, we’re giving away 10 free messages to the first 250 users who sign up for the service.
Register at twittex.com today!
Are you fascinated by new technology? Do you like playing with computers and other electronic devices to find out how they work? Can you solve problems?
If you can, then you should think about working for Gradwell.
Your responsibilities will be processing customer orders, predominantly configuring and dispatching VoIP Telephone hardware, maintaining our stock, processing deliveries and assisting the support and operations teams.
We’re very pleased to announce the launch of twittex - a simple prepay service that delivers Twitter updates from your friends to your mobile phone via SMS. twittex is currently available on all UK networks. SMS messages are charged at 10p each, including VAT.
Up until 14th August 2008, Twitter provided a free SMS alerts service for its users in the UK. From inside Twitter, you could register your mobile phone, and decide which of your friends you wanted to follow via SMS. The cost of providing this service for free was one that Twitter couldn’t continue to carry, and the service was withdrawn as a result.
At Gradwell.com, we’d recently launched a new service news website so that our customers could be kept informed of alerts and maintenance of our major services (broadband, email, hosting and VoIP). The new service published updates to Twitter, so that our customers could use Twitter’s SMS alerts for when they were away from their computers. With Twitter no longer sending out SMS alerts, we needed an alternative. So we built twittex!
To get started, create an account at twittex.com, add your mobile phones and your twitter accounts, and some credit (£1, £5, £10 or £20), and you’re all set.