TweSMS Needs Your Feedback
Most of you by now know about my latest project TweSMS that allows you to receive twitter direct messages and mention to your phone by means of SMS messaging.
In an effort to move forward with the project there is some decisions I need to make and I would like to have your feedback on the matter. It was recently pointed out the TweSMS is a really great service but the question remains would you pay for a service like this? Some users has mixed feelings over this and one pointed out that it’s a case of I like it, but can live without it if I have to pay for it.
Now I would like you to give me your opinion on the matter, would you pay for the TweSMS service or would you still use it if it was free but supported by advertisement SMS messages every now and then?
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The service worked well for me during your testing phase. I wasn’t able to get the time for messages to be sent to stick, I see that is missing on the settings page now. I will be looking into getting some credits and using this as I can’t have Push on my iPhone enabled (using GConnect as my 3G ISP it doesn’t work due to disconnect/timeout). Keep up the work on the service
@MikeCTZA
I think you should provide a free service as well as a paid for service. For example, the free service would only send you “x” amount of messages per day and maybe exclude mentions, whereby the paid for service is for those die-hard users that spend 23 hours a day on twitter, and in the event that they are away from twitter, at least they’ll have the comfort of knowing twesms will send them notifications so they don’t miss a thing.
@MikeCTZA yea I had to remove that due to some issues, but it will be back in the next release.
@Nick that is a great idea, I would work because there is allot of people I talked with that says that they will infact pay for the service.
Nice, would be cool if there was a free version, as always … free is always good. I only get max 1 or 2 DM/mentions a day so a low volume option would work fine for me, even if you sent some for of an ad in SMS that would work for me too (as long as it came all in 1 SMS message not 2)
In my case – I got around the time restricting thing by using another app on my iPhone that enables and disables things at certain times so, just turned off the sounds and all was then sorted.