Twitter and Digicel Eliminate SMS Charges for Haiti

Courtesy Mashable!  Mon, 02/22/2010 - 14:03

Twitter, as a platform, played a big role in the instantaneous spread of information following the earthquake that devastated Haiti in January.

Today the microblogging site is officially supporting the exchange of real-time information and offering free SMS tweets for Digicel Haiti customers.

As of now, Digicel Haiti customers won’t incur charges for the SMS tweets they send and receive through Twitter’s 40404 short code.

The bottom line is that...


 

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