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Due to the high cost of sending and receiving text messages (SMS) in Australia Twitter has decided to turn off the service in the land down under. The service outage seems to be a temporary situation with hopes to resolve it soon. Our friends in the outback can still use Twitter via the web and other clients, just not on their phones. Hopefully they’ll be back with us soon.

via mashable

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Twitter’s API has been updated to allow access to direct messages. I suspect we’ll see new versions of all our favorite twitter tools soon to support this new feature and I’m glad to see it. I wonder it this is what’s been causing the extra strain on the servers today.

The main usage people are speculating at are things like sending a message to a twitter name like “movies” and getting back a current list of movies playing, or scores or weather or stocks… the list goes on.

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