Online system for group SMS (Europe)?

November 26, 2009 5:48 AM

I want to put on an urban murder-mystery-like game in Portugal. The system would use SMS to communicate with players. Is there an online system that could send an SMS to every player at once, or to different combinations or groups within the large group (preferably free)?
posted by Josh Coe to Computers & Internet (6 answers total)

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posted by vacapinta at 6:50 AM on November 26, 2009

Skype can do mass SMS, but not free I think.
posted by NekulturnY at 8:03 AM on November 26, 2009

Can you use AIM somehow? I know you can SMS phones from AIM, but I'm I've never tried to SMS multiple people at once.
posted by thekiltedwonder at 8:04 AM on November 26, 2009

it looks a little flaky, but if you could somehow script your way through this service. not tested, just googled.
posted by gijsvs at 12:15 PM on November 26, 2009

are you on a mac? then this is perhaps better (local client)
posted by gijsvs at 12:18 PM on November 26, 2009

Seconding this question, but for Canada?
posted by sixswitch at 2:19 PM on November 26, 2009