> You could achieve this with Twitter years ago. Twitter will accept "tweets"
> from your mobile via sms - It's an international SMS so your solution may be
> cheaper if you're using a local destination number.
Yes, but then I will need a Twitter account, plus will have to send all my
updates to a UK number, as you mentioned. That will turn out to be expensive in
the long run.
>
> So with the Twitter solution what you once your sms's are becoming tweets is
> link your Facebook status to your twitter tweets and you're
> "social-networking" on two platforms, not just one, via SMS.
Apparently there are only 5000 Twitter users in the Middle East compared to 1
million Facebook users. Didn't think doing something with Twitter was worth my
time, especially because I was thinking only local users would find the app
interesting.
>
> What would be great is a service where you can select one or two key
> Facebook or Twitter contacts and have their status sms'ed to you phone -
> This is something that Twitter already doesn't but isn't available on
> Etisalat / Du.
I could have(still can) setup the application to SMS users their friends'
status updates, but then that will cost me money to send outbound text messages
and I will have to make this a paid service, which I didn't think was a good
idea.
Thanks for the feedback,
Mejo
