[quixoticaxolotl]

> the only people who don't have smartphones these days are the kind of people who have made an intentional choice to reduce their always-on digital connection

This needs to be qualified: with respect to Twitter's target audience.

It's empirically not true that smartphone penetration is universal. Only ~350 million smartphones exist in India for 1 billion people, for example (source: McKinsey Global Institute's "Digital India" report publication from April 2019).

It's a fair statement to say that the majority of prospective and current Twitter users have smartphones, which justifies this decision.

[crazygringo]

Totally agreed. I'm wondering if Twitter still supports SMS in India, but unfortunately can't locate any page that lists the countries they're still supporting.

Bizarrely, the relevant link in their help center is broken:

https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/supported-mobile-c...

It used to work:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200420041309/https://help.twit...