3jam, a company specializing in Web and SMS communications and one which we’ve mentioned numerous times in months past is launching a new service tonight that they sent us the scoop on. The service is looking to act as a replacement to the recently deceased capability for Twitter to send messages to users' mobile devices. As Don Reisinger noted, "Twitter said that it simply can’t afford to support long-distance SMS Twittering anymore and the company claims “it could cost Twitter about $1,000 per user per year to send SMS outside of Canada, India, or the US.”
3jam joins the also opportunistic TweetSMS in an attempt to fill the void left by Twitter for worldwide SMS users, though 3jam appears to be focusing purely on direct messaging at the moment. The service will deliver your Twitter direct messages as SMS to 3jam users' phones. They'll also be providing local Twitter posting numbers for folks in Australia, Sweden and Germany.
Still, this isn't a full-featured solution, at least not yet. They say that if their userbase demands it, they'll work on rolling out status updates, delivery of @replies as well as further expansion of European access numbers.