Kiwi Tweets
Twitter is taking the world by storm and now New Zealanders on Vodafone can send and receive tweets via SMS. The shortcode for Twitter in New Zealand is 8987 or TWTR.
I, personally, am not jumping up and down at the possibility of now being able to receive notifications of what those I follow are eating for breakfast, who's stressed, who's relaxed, who can't sleep etc but I am intrigued by the possibilities for web-based community projects piggy-backing on the Twitter service and have some ideas for some useful services.
Check out Vodafone's press-release and Twitter's blog post.
“Twitter is about connecting with people. NZ is the 6th most "twitterific" nation in the world, about 129,000 people are tweeting here! Ya might want to hop on because you're missing an entire market segment if you don't.”