Let a 100 shortcodes bloom
We’ve talked about the complexity of having a conversation over SMS before. The updates you receive from anyone you follow on Pring has a number at the end. If you wanted to comment on that update, you had to reply using that number followed by your comment. Sounds complicated? Well, it can be.
But worry no more! We’re very happy to announce that starting today, if you’re a Zong customer, you can comment on any update by simply replying to it. This really simplifies the experience of having a conversation around a particular update.
So, how do we achieve this? When you reply to an SMS, we have no way of knowing what you are replying to. In order to keep track of what you are replying to, we send you updates each time through a different shortcode. For example, instead of getting an update from 2323 (for Zong customers), you will get an update from 232310 or 232311 etc. When you reply to this shortcode, we keep track of the message we sent to you and add your reply as a comment to it. But for updating your status, you still have to send it to 2323. Everything else works the same.
Working with CMPak (the people behind Zong) has been great and they’ve been the first in taking innovation like this forward quickly by allocating us a hundred codes from 232300 to 232399. We’re working with other Mobile Operators to bring this functionality there as well. We hope this update makes it easier for you to make comments.
Happy commenting!
by @Nash
January 29th, 2010 at 10:30 am
I liked the idea and good work Nash n team
January 30th, 2010 at 11:02 am
But this service has stopped sms for zong numbers
January 31st, 2010 at 10:09 am
Great idea aud good job. My group name Murad
January 31st, 2010 at 2:01 pm
@Imran, Zong had downtime, please see http://www.pringit.com/Pring/pings/3780999 and http://www.pringit.com/Pring/pings/3787066
February 1st, 2010 at 11:12 am
This service has become slow plz make it fast.
February 12th, 2010 at 12:48 am
this is very nice work
February 13th, 2010 at 10:59 am
hi this service is nice and we are enjoying as much as we like
February 16th, 2010 at 8:44 pm
nice work guyz
February 18th, 2010 at 7:23 pm
most of the costumers are nt available wid the use of this work so explanation should be there.
March 16th, 2010 at 1:53 pm
Hi, Nash i appreciate your efforts. I have a problem. I hv changed my number from ufone to zong in order to have the facility of replying. now i get updates from pring but my updates are not published on pring. plz help me
March 17th, 2010 at 9:09 pm
Does it support Telenor?
March 26th, 2010 at 8:20 am
i block some pring now i want to unblock them, but i didnt remember there name i d what i do now help me
March 27th, 2010 at 3:17 pm
Sir,
Why Zong is charging 0.50 / sms.
March 30th, 2010 at 8:17 am
Hi Sir I have a question to ask are you hiring any time in karachi soon? If that would be the case can I apply? I have 2 years experiance in .net but I am hardworking and would love to learn new technologies like java.
Thanks and Regards,
Faheem
April 8th, 2010 at 12:05 pm
i want more poetry
April 18th, 2010 at 3:23 am
Hey Nash.. i wanna ask that how can we start a private converstaion from cell phone usnig pring…?
July 7th, 2010 at 3:59 am
Allow all other networks.
July 22nd, 2010 at 5:44 pm
i like this site
August 21st, 2010 at 2:20 am
AsSalam 0 AlaikuM aLl pRiNGerxX…. hey NASH…. pring is awesome. but plz block them, who they giVe adds on pring.i fed up frm them. “LaVaNdEr”
August 21st, 2010 at 2:24 am
hey… for unblock……… but stuuck from id change of them.. plz signup on http://www.pringit.com. go to settings. u can see block nick names.if they still exist… i mean no usub…………. c ya
August 23rd, 2010 at 5:05 pm
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