We’ve all heard of duplicate content on the World Wide Web, but duplicate text messages? Now that’s definitely something new. Twitter has resumed mobile broadcast services in the UK in collaboration with Vodaphone. However, things aren’t exactly going to plan.
People in the UK have complained of multiple identical text messages coming in sporadic succession. 10, 15 or even 20 messages aren’t uncommon, with the result that people are waking up to their mobile inboxes full with junk.
“Tell Twitter what you’re doing” may even be misinterpreted as SMS spam as people being to wonder why Twitter is so desperate to know what they’re up to.
