Twitter fans living here in Canada will have to give up receiving messages their feeds via SMS or text messages as the company just announced on their status blog that they can no longer cover the costs."Unexpected changes in our billing have forced us into a difficult situation with our Canadian SMS service. We can’t afford to support this service given our current arrangement with our providers (where costs have been doubling for the past several months.) As a result, effective today we are no longer delivering outbound SMS over our Canadian shortcode (21212)."What this means is that you can still update your Twitter feed using your mobile through SMS or text messaging over 21212 (where you cover the cost), but you can't receive messages from the service (where Twitter would have to foot the bill). The statement goes on to promise that a future solution for Canada and other countries where Twitter has suffered similar problems is something they will continue to look into and believe that a solution will be found.
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