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.
