Hi, We don't know why we were blocked, we had a commercial contract in place - but the provider aren't very forthcomming. The model that was used was an "Adsense" for mobiles, which meant that we were supposed to be paid for every message we processed, however the network never attached any adverts other than their own so we never got paid (but that has been the status quo for the last month). We were in talks with another company to buy our service from us and still use Wadja - we enquired to with Wadja to see if our contract was transferable; they cut us off.
Finding another SMS gateway that will send messages worldwide for free is going to be hard - there is a reason why twitter pulled out of many markets (until they negotiated better deals - Vodafone etc). So if any twitters out there want to talk or know any one who can help we are all ears. To answer another question: not many phone networks provide Email to SMS - after all there is lots of money to be had for sending SMS's, even a 1pence/cent per SMS. But if you do have a provider that can accept emails then the whole process if very easy to replicate. Paul. 2009/5/11 Patrick Burrows <pburr...@categorical.ly> > Why were you blocked? > > And there seems to be a lot of competition in this space (SMS Gateway > providers) can’t you just go to someone else? > > > > -- > > Patrick Burrows > > http://Categorical.ly (the Best Twitter Client Possible) > > @Categorically > > > > *From:* twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto: > twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Paul Kinlan > *Sent:* Monday, May 11, 2009 9:44 AM > *To:* twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* [twitter-dev] Re: Send @replies/mentions via SMS? > > > > Hi, > > Just to let you know, I developed www.twe2.com exactly for this purpose. > However, we have just been blocked by our SMS provider. > > It is a shame really because we sent 2 million SMS's to the Twitter > community, > > Paul > > 2009/5/11 Arik Fraimovich <arik...@gmail.com> > > > Someone already developed an application that forwards mentions to DM > (see here: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Application-Ideas). > > When I tried it, it didn't work that good, but I think he did some > changes since then. > > > On May 11, 8:15 am, TjL <luo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've been banging my head against this for several days (when I've had > > "free time") and wonder if maybe someone has already invented this > > wheel. > > > > I'm looking for a way to get @replies (sorry, I mean "mentions") via SMS. > > > > *ahem* > > Ideally this would be an officially supported option > > > listed inhttp://twitter.com/devices:-) > > > *ahem* > > > > But, since it isn't :-) > > > > > My idea has been to fetch thehttp:// > twitter.com/statuses/mentions.formatevery minute or so, check > > > against a cache of previously sent "mentions" and send the new ones > > (as DMs to myself, since I have DMs forwarded to my cell via SMS > > already). > > > > This seems HUGELY inefficient (i.e. there will be a LOT of minutes > > throughout the day which return no new "mentions") but I can't think > > of a more efficient way of getting them in a fairly timely manner. > > > > Thanks for any pointers. > > > > TjL > > >
