[The Next Web] Twitter is winding down its SMS-based system for delivering tweets


Twitter is shutting down its service that let you use the social network over text messages. Twitter was originally built in mind keeping 140 character limit of text messages. So, it even built on top of SMS in 2010. Last year, Jack Dorsey’s account was hacked, and folks behind it used Twitter via SMS feature to tweet not so subtle slurs from his account. Later, the company disabled the compose feature for this service in select regions. [Read: Scientists think we’ll finally solve nuclear fusion thanks to cutting-edge AI] In a statement, the company said it’s shutting down the service…

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