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November 9, 2009

Twitter partners with Axis in Indonesia

I had a feeling something was up a couple of months ago when Three announced their Twitter by SMS feature. They pushed it hard and even collaborating with @infoll, and @lewatmana to co-promote their services during the Idul Fitri homecoming period. However there was no peep from Mashable or even on Twitter's own blog. Today, Twitter's Director of Mobile Products and Partnerships Kevin Thau announced that they're partnering with Axis (@axisgsm) to provide Twitter's SMS services in Indonesia.

This pretty much confirms that Three's Twitter service was not official. If you send via SMS, normally it would show up as a tweet sent via txt but with Three, it's via TwitPakeTri. Bottom line, does it matter if it's official? Not really, it just means that now there are two providers that let you use Twitter via SMS.

Twitter Blog: SMS for AXIS Indonesia

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August 11, 2009

Twitter via SMS is back in Indonesia

If you've been meaning to try Twitter as it was meant to be used, Twitter is now available again via SMS in Indonesia. It's certainly not something that hardcore Twitter users would use but if you just want to get your feet wet in the twitter stream, this could be a good place to start.

I've used Twitter via SMS before back in 2007 before they yanked the service globally because it was getting way too expensive for them to deal with. The experience was certainly different and it encourages you to be much less conversational. While it's practical for updating what you're doing at that moment, it's not something I would use as the main way to tweet. Also, back then it cost an international rate of Rp. 500 per message because you had to send the SMS to a UK number. Now it's local and it's free.

The catch is you have to be using Three (Tri) as your provider. Oh and it doesn't support reply threads which would suck if you got a reply and you forgot the topic. You might need to clean up your SMS storage a bit more often if you decide to hit full time tweeting via SMS. The good news is you can select which tweets to receive. I'll leave you to check out the details for yourself.

http://www.tri.co.id/twitter/

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