Many readers have been asking us why they haven’t received any text alerts since Thursday.
As we posted last night, Twitter – without warning – shut down their SMS notifications system.
Which means, thousands of our followers who were receiving alerts via text only, will no longer receive updates.
(A local resident started a petition to bring it back, though the likelihood of that working is slim.)
Their 40404 signup option was nixed a while back, but this latest move also affects followers signed up through Twitter and requested text alerts.
TLS is working on another option for text followers, and we’ll keep you posted about that.
In the interim, if you have the capability, you can get push notifications via Twitter, and if you’re on WhatsApp, you can receive our Status updates by joining here.
I haven’t been receiving anything in weeks. Why would Twitter stop it?
seems like Verizon stopped allowing a lot of conference numbers? anyone else have this issue?
twitter stopped the sms around a month ago for me. and then a week later it started working again. not sure what that was about. it stopped for me again now, hopefully it will be put back up again soon