Twitter the biggest micro-blogging platform is giving Diwali gift to Indian Twitter user by collaborating with India biggest telecom giant Airtel. In this collaboration Indian twitter users can directly tweet from their mobile using SMS.
Though receiving SMS will be free but sending SMS will be chargeable according to Airtel regular charge.
In an official announcement twitter co-founder Biz stone announced
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 the simplest of these devices feature SMS
To initiate this service, Indian Airtel mobile users need to send a text to 53000 with START
Looking at official announcement, we can also predict more Indian telecom giant, may have collaboration in the near future.
What do you think about Tweeting from mobile using SMS? When we have much better lower cost option by Tweeting using GPRS or 3G ?
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If I have to tweet from mobile I use GPRS, beacuse my GPRS is free.
and I think those who have not GPRS enabled handsets they may tweet from SMS if they really want to wish from twitter.
Yes Avi, this service is useful for people who don’t have GPRS enabled mobile.
you call this gift? It’s charged 1Re. per Tweet!
LOL no one wants paid gifts!
It is working. Now I’m tweeting from Airtel.
Thats great Sajitha. Though keep a track of your bill
Hi Harsh,
This is really the best and appreciated step taken by Twitter.So why not we Indian celebrate the Diwali by sending the wishes to our Twitter friends through Airtel.
Surender I agree but the sad part is In India all the mobile operator have increased the SMS rate for 2 days, So I will still prefer the web interface for two days to send tweets and wishes.
A very nice step by Airtel
. Now we can wish our Twitter friends through our mobiles .
Happy Diwali to you Harsh!
Thanks Shabnam and same to you
Very useful service by Airtel..