Twitter just partnered with Australia’s mobile titan Telstra to provide SMS support for Twitter. As is typical, receiving notifications is free, with standard text message rates applying for sending tweets via SMS.

If you happen to live in Australia and your mobile provider is Telstra, you can enable the service by sending the text message “START” to 0198089488. Associating your phone with your Twitter account will enable all the usual Twitter text commands.

Officially, this adds Australia to the list of countries supporting tweets via SMS. Below is the list of countries supporting tweets via SMS.

• United States
• United Kingdom
• Canada
• India
• Indonesia
• New Zealand
• Australia

I wonder when will they be having this in Philippines. Twitter blog says there will be more countries supported soon. Facebook SMS support is already in Philippines since mid way this year, (2009). Tweeter is under rated here in Philippines but I hope they will support this soon. I hope we can learn to appreciate twitter, I think its already in its peak and we should not miss this era in our rapidly changing technology. You may ask why you need a twitter account? Click here to find out.

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