Nope, it's totally free to have Twitter send txt messages to your phone.
On Jan 13, 12:41 pm, "Aaron Cooper" <[email protected]> wrote: > Never once used Twitter. > > Do you have to pay Twitter per txt? > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Super Steve" <[email protected]> > To: "NZ PHP Users Group" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 12:34 PM > Subject: [phpug] Using Twitter for Free Web to Txt Messages? > > >I know there has been several people on here asking about how to send > > text messages from a website and there were several answers. > > > Lately I've been playing around with using Twitter and having tweets > > sent to my phone. I got to thinking that this might be a way to have > > my website send me txt messages for free. > > > I've found lots of PHP code that sends a message to Twitter, and then > > I just need to set up a Twitter account and link it to my phone and > > disable other people from following that account. Free txt messages > > to me from my website! > > > Of course this is only any good if you want to send txt messages to > > just one phone (or a limited number of phones); it won't allow you to > > send a txt message to any phone. But I have several clients that are > > currently using other methods to get their websites to send them txt > > messages (i.e. urgent requests from their clients, etc). > > > Has anyone else used Twitter in this manner? The only down-side I can > > see if that there's a limit of 150 messages per hour. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > > NZ PHP Users Group:http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug > > To post, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe, send email to > > [email protected]
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