2008 is the year when twitter was first introduced to mobile platform via SMS. At that time it was assumed as a costly affair .Now in the year 2009 it has again came back with none other than ,The largest mobile operator Airtel, Now Indians can also enjoy the famous icroblogging site Twitter onto their fingertips.
Bharti Airtel has joined hands with the famous micro blogging site twitter. Bharti Airtel’s has signed a pact of 4 week exclusive deal with Twitter. The deal offers Bharti Airtel web over Data connection (GPRS) subscribers to stay connected anywhere and anytime via SMS on to the twitter.
Till date , Twitter notifications via SMS service is available in United States , UK, Canada, New Zealand and now in India. Twitter can penetrate more due to Airtel message service in India. Currently India has more than 457 million mobile subscribers. The twitter co –founder has said in the blog post at Official Twitter Blog,”We worked quickly to establish full SMS service in India with the largest operator because organic growth in the region has been unusually strong and there is huge potential for positive impact.”
Bharti Airtel the most renowned mobile network in India has join hands with Twitter. Now the Bharti Airtel users can tweet directly via mobile SMS. Bharti Airtel is permitting its users to tweet under its four week exclusive business deal with twitter, in which the Airtel subscribers can get updated notifications via Text message (SMS) on their mobile handset directly.
Twitter is a free micro-blogging service that allows users to update their status messages in 140 characters. In the year 2008, Twitter can be accessed through SMS in India but it was discontinued because of high expenses.
Twitter is gaining popularity day by day because many famous celebrities, political leaders, dress designers and other famous entities uses this platform to share their ideas ,views and news of their field.
Airtel subscribers can try out the Twitter notifications by sending this shortcode SIGNUP to number 53000. Existing Twitter users who wish to link their Airtel Number to Twitter account require to send START to 53000 for activating their device. More details about Twitter on Airtel can be accessed at this exclusive page – http://airtel.in/twitter/
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