(1) Charges:

I just added my device to my Twitter accounts and I am getting lots of SMS messages from the twitters I follow. Now I am a bit worried. Who is paying for it? I had a quick look at the small print and it says the following:

“If you use your mobile in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada or New Zealand you can also receive tweets via SMS. Twitter doesn't charge anything for this, but standard text messaging rates or bundles may apply from your carrier.”

Now as far as I know Vodafone can only charge for outgoing texts - right? If that is the case, who is footing the bill for my Twitter notifications?


(2) Unwanted entries in my Follow list 

When I set up my twitter account a couple of days ago, the Twitter automatically assigned 20 odd what looked like twitters that I was following by default.

I keep deleting them / unfollow / block them – but they keep coming back. Is this part of the Twitter revenue model?

Here are some examples that simply won’t go away:



funnyordie Funny or Die

brookeburke Brooke Burke

alyankovic Al Yankovic

Newsweek



amazonmp3 Amazon MP3