O2 offers Twitter text updates

O2 customers will be able to get Twitter updates texted to their mobile phones from next month.

The network operator announced today that customers could have any direct messages or @replies sent directly to their phones.

In addition, customers will be able to send updates to Twitter via text for no additional charge on top of their monthly contract. Pay-as-you-go customers will be able to send text updates for the normal price of a text.

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However, there is a 'fair usage' policy in place – customers will be asked to limit their text updates to a maximum of 600 per month.

"We believe that mobile will soon become the most popular way of accessing social-networking sites, giving real time access to tweets and status updates wherever you are," said Antony Douglas, head of Content at O2.

Vodafone already offers its customers a similar service.