Twitter Goes Wireless with Canada's Rogers

Canada's Rogers Wireless has followed Bell Canada in resuming SMS services for the Twitter micro-blogging platform. The feature comes at no additional cost for customers on text messaging plans.

"Our text messaging partnership with Twitter is the latest way Rogers is helping our customers to connect and stay up-to-date on their wireless device," said John Boynton, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Rogers Wireless. "Rogers was first to enable Twitter through a wireless browser and we're excited to now provide Twitter by SMS as well."

"We're thrilled to be working with Canada's largest wireless provider," said Kevin Thau, Twitter's Director of Mobile Business Development. "Twitter is a real-time messaging service for sharing and discovering what's happening - right now. By partnering with Rogers Wireless, customers using Twitter can now view, post and reply to messages, ensuring the application stays affordable and true to its real-time nature."

In addition to being able to send and receive tweets, customers will also have access to all Twitter capabilities including the ability to add (or "follow") new people and reply to updates. Customers will also be able to select whether they want to receive updates from all the people they follow or from a select group of people.

Vodafone is also offering inclusive SMSs for Twitter in the UK.

Posted to the site on 5th May 2009