[General] زين تسعى لجلب تويتر إلى شبكتها | zain to get twitter to its network!

[bashar abdullah]

Exactly Majed. As I recall, my friend did test. Requesting SMS delivery
confirmation and couldn't get it with Zain. Any Zain user can try and verify
it.

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Majed B. <majedb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wataniya has SMS reporting enabled. I don't see how a company in the
> size of Zain can't handle some extra bandwidth for the stupid
> reports!!!
>
> I agree with you Bashar; if they're to lock this tweeting to Zain
> only, then they still don't get it...
>
> A better idea to attract customers is to create an API for twitter
> allowing Zain customers to tweet for free via SMS. (If not free, then
> @ very reduced rate: 1-5 fils -- even though I don't see why people
> would go for the paid when they have Internet on their phone).
>
> On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 10:52 PM, bashar
> abdullah<bashar.abdullah at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I really hope they all do it, and it's really smart to do so under
> certain
> > limit. although it's kinda late now after most people got used to mobile
> > apps which are much more user friendly.
> >
> > What I heard from a friend was, even then when Twitter was taking the
> charge
> > of the SMS, Zain was continuously failing because it seems, to cut down
> the
> > cost, they have disabled SMS delivery confirmation. Thus, when Twitter
> keeps
> > sending SMS without delivery confirmation, to cut down the cost, they
> would
> > assume phone is not receiving and stop updating it. My friend kept trying
> to
> > get it to work but it kept coming back to same problem.
> >
> > PS: If it's exclusive, I'd be disappointed from Twitter. Power of Twitter
> is
> > being open. Once you start locking it, you're eating from it's core
> value.
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Bashar Al-Abdulhadi <
> bashar at kuwaitnet.net>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://www.teedoz.com/2009/%d8%b2%d9%8a%d9%86-%d8%aa%d8%b3%d8%b9%d9%89-%d9%84%d8%ac%d9%84%d8%a8-%d8%aa%d9%88%d9%8a%d8%aa%d8%b1-%d8%a5%d9%84%d9%89-%d8%b4%d8%a8%d9%83%d8%aa%d9%87%d8%a7/
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://arabcrunch.com/2009/08/twitter-in-talks-to-bring-sms-back-to-the-arab-wold.html
> >>
> >> watwet.com ?
> >>
> >>
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