We said earlier this month Twitter was just a few weeks away reinstating inbound SMS to UK mobile users - and now it’s happening. The microblog platform says it’s done a deal with Vodafone (NYSE: VOD). Receiving SMS tweets will be free for all Voda customers, outgoing SMS tweets will…

Managing to combine two zeitgeists in to one (Twitter and joblessness), Incisive Media-backed job search engine operator Work Digital has launched (get this) TwitterJobSearch. Rather predictably, the site lets users search Twitter for job listings. Is anyone really posting job classifieds to Twitter? Sort of; just as the status update…

Regular Twitter users probably felt the latest lurch toward an adoption tipping point last month, as Philip Schofield’s conversion earned the messaging-service-without-a-business-model lashings of press coverage. Now HitWise’s latest stats on the site confirm its speedy rise - UK visits to Twitter’s website have already trebled since the start of…

Update: Stone told us: “Nothing concrete to report just yet.” Apologies for another post about the messaging-service-without-a-business-model, but co-founder Biz Stone has promised inbound SMS service is coming back to the UK - a move likely to see an acceleration in already fast-growing take-up. Twitter canceled the service here in…

A statistical postscript to yesterday’s news Philip Schofield is a tweeter - the site is still proportionally more popular in the UK than the US, and is spreading some welcome traffic to news and entertainment sites. Hitwise says UK traffic to the site grew 10 percent in the last year,…

This may go down in history as the moment Twitter went mainstream in the UK - equally, it may not. One by one, the celebs - some real, some fake - have joined the messaging-service-without-a-business-model in recent weeks. Yet the likes of @stephenfry,  @Wossy and @bobbyllew have (sorry, guys) largely…

By Jemima Kiss: Further proof, if we needed it, that the Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) has no sense of humour. Some wag created the inevitable spoof account for the Mail on Twitter, which resulted in various diverting tweets including: ”God bless Prince Harry! He’s only saying what we’re all thinking…”…

When Twitter decided to shut down its UK operations last month blaming the crippling per user cost, the obvious question was raised: why not convert it to a premium rate SMS service and have users foot the bill? After all, that’s what a number of opportunistic start-ups such as Zygo…

Twitter says it’s stopped sending out tweets via SMS in the UK, claiming the popularity of the service has made the cost too prohibitive (but I’m still getting messages). Without Twitter actually having figured out a business model yet, it was always destined to be this way. Though it has…

And you thought it was mostly Americans addicted to the SMS/IM/web presence thingamy… ? Web measurer Hitwise says it’s the reverse - at least, proportionally. “Last week the site’s share of UK internet visits was 70 percent higher its share of visits in America,” said analyst Robin Goad. “Twitter cannot…