Social networking sites are only getting bigger and better as they figure out how best to serve their clientele. Over the last few months, regular Tweeters have changed the way they use Twitter (News - Alert). Some sporting events produced more tweets than ever before, while other Twitter users are finding the site can help them organize a political rally or even avoid police intervention.

Of course, up until recently, if you didn’t have a smartphone or a reliable WiFi (News - Alert) connection, you probably weren’t tweeting all that often because the opportunity simply didn’t present itself. Of course, Twitter has made a service available so that you can actually tweet using the SMS instant messenger function that comes with almost all phones these days, but recently Twitter became available to some of the premiere satellite phone operators as well.

Twitter announced yesterday that the site now officially supports tweeting via SMS texts for satellite phone providers Iridium and Thuraya (News - Alert). Of course, there was a workaround to tweeting using these phones before now; it just wasn’t all that easy. Look hard enough and you will find that in today’s technological world, there is always a workaround, it’s just a matter of how hard you want to work to find it. Now with these two satellite phones, there is a short code that will make it just as easy as if you were using a regular old cell phone.

Now when you put your satellite phone number on Twitter you can send a short code (40404 for Iridium (News - Alert), 1888 for Thuraya) and your text will go up on the Twitter site in short order. This means that you can now be climbing Mount Kilimanjaro when you suddenly realize you need to let everyone know that you are climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. 

While this particular addition is basically seen as a good thing, there is some concern that Twitter will have a problem censoring tweets from different countries. It does appear that from now on, there are very few venues in which you are not able to tell the world whatever thought enters your head in 140 character bursts.