Now tweet through SMS in India
By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 15 October 2009, 18:53 IST
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Now tweet through SMS in India
Washington: The micro blogging service Twitter has announced a deal with the leading mobile company Bharti Airtel to allow the users to send 'tweets' at standard SMS message rates and receive them for free. "In many parts of the world people do not have Internet access but they can text, and that means they can access Twitter," Biz Stone, Co-Founder, San Francisco based Twitter. "Our partnership with Bharti Airtel, the largest mobile operator in India, means a huge population of people can now send tweets at standard rates and receive tweets for free," said Stone. "There are over one billion people with internet access on the planet but there are more than four billion people with mobile phones and Twitter can work on all of them because even the simplest of these devices feature SMS," added Stone. The organic growth has been unusually strong in the region for Twitter and there is a huge potential for positive impact, Stone described as the reason for teaming up with Airtel. Twitter allows users to post 140 character or less messages known as 'tweets,' and has grown in popularity since it was launched in August 2006 claiming to have topped 50 million users.

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