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Introducing Smeets - a social experiment that lets you SMS your tweets in SA
I've been working on a side project at immedia recently that I've code-named Smeets. (Got a better name? Drop me a comment!) It's a social experiment and we want to gauge what penetration tweeting by SMS might have in South Africa. Also, this project was more of a just-for-fun and a cos-we-can project :-)
Smeets allows you to tweet from anywhere using any cellphone since it all it requires is an SMS capable phone. We're using a standard cellphone number which means standard peak and off-peak rates apply; it also means that you can use your free and bundled SMSes to tweet!
Judging by today's response, it seems tweeting by SMS might have an interesting impact in South Africa. The next few weeks will be interesting to see what the Smeets stats are like.
If you're curious and would like to try out tweeting by sms, simply visit http://smeets.immedia.co.za and sign up for an invite. It's a closed beta right now cos we're still experimenting with the code base ourselves. Enjoy!
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I have the greatest friends!
When Portfoolio was approved for the App Store, everyone was congratulating the team that worked on the app by sending covers of albums (I sent The Pointer Sister's I'm So Excited; Basil sent MC Hammer's Can't Touch This, Anice sent The Beatle's Abbey Road). This is what my buddy Paul Watson sent the team:
I truly work with some of the most amazing people. Thanks everyone!
