Twitter kills Canadian SMS updates. Can the U.S. be far behind?

Twitter is ending outbound SMS updates in Canada. In their own words:

Unexpected changes in our billing have forced us into a difficult situation with our Canadian SMS service. We can’t afford to support this service given our current arrangement with our providers (where costs have been doubling for the past several months.) As a result, effective today we are no longer delivering outbound SMS over our Canadian shortcode (21212).

According to Venture Beat, now the U.S. and India remain as the only countries with full SMS support for Twitter.

emily | 7:56 AM | Twitter |
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