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Twitter is desperately trying to figure out some business model to make money from its millions of users, but till than it must do whatever is possible to cut down on expenses so as to not run out of cash. In an effort to do so, the company is ending outbound SMS updates to Canadian users and is doing so silently. MG Siegler notes that:

The quiet killing of this feature (made on the Twitter Status blog rather than the main Twitter blog), is due to “unexpected changes in our [Twitter's] billing,” according to the post. The arrangement Twitter had negotiated with Canadian mobile carriers to send users’ text updates for tweets (Twitter messages) has apparently seen costs double multiple times over the past several months.

Twitter had already shut down SMS updates in UK and rest of world with US, Canada and India being the only countries on the face of the planet to have this feature. Well as of today, the list shrinks to two.