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For fun and profit, I decided to check whether you can truly send SMS messages for free using Twitter (Wikipedia).

Yes, it does work, except that you can only send to other Twitters — the free part is more about receiving SMSes rather than sending them. So every receiver that you want to SMS needs to be registered with Twitter. Nonetheless, a pretty impressive improvement!

Especially since you can send the messages in a Jabber client (including Google Talk / GMail chat), right on the PC, typing on a decent keyboard.

The trick is to register the mobile with twitter, and setup your mobile to receive only so-called ‘direct’ Twitter messages.

Then, in the chat client, add twitter@twitter.com as a contact. Talking to this service you can send direct messages with “D [username] [message]“.

You get 250 mobile messages per month. Do keep it quiet before the big telcos find out and decide to block it!

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