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...Message Me system’s inability to send texts longer than 160 characters, including the message heading, according to Galvin. University officials conducted a series of meetings yesterday, discussing the performance of the Message Me system, and possible modifications and upgrades, including integrating it with Facebook or Twitter updates. Following Monday’s incident, the Cambridge Police Department did not send out text messages over a similar notification system put in place for area residents last year, since its activation requires “a series of incidents,” said spokesman James DeFrancesco. Emily J. Hogan...
...Starbucks is joining a long line of large companies that want to begin to use Twitter, perhaps the most successful Web 2.0 launch in over a year, to bring in customers. According to The New York Times, Starbucks will run print ads that encourage people to look for its new marketing messages be alerting them to the campaign using the Twitter text messaging service...
...trouble with the idea is that Twitter users may not see the service as a commercial enterprise that should be used to bombard them with advertising. Users of MySpace and Facebook have already staged revolts against the services being used to solicit them to buy products and services. People who use Twitter to communicate with friends may feel the same way. If the service becomes a place where conversations among users are interrupted by marketing messages, Twitter could actually begin to lose users. (Read: "Your Facebook Relationship Status: It's Complicated...
...Starbucks has fostered the image of being customer friendly and has not resorted to aggressive advertising to bring in new coffee drinkers. Flooding Twitter in an attempt to drive people to its coffee shops may back fire especially if it comes across as crass commercialism...
...Read: "Obama and Twitter: White House Social-Networking...