Airtel joins hands with Twitter to introduce SMS tweets
Posted on October 15th, 2009 | Filed under: Network Operators
A new face of the renowned social networking site has now surfaced, Twitter recently teamed up with Indian network carrier Airtel to introduce SMS tweets. The SMS service by means of Twitter was earlier launched in several countries including US, Canada, New Zealand and the UK.
According to the Official Twitter Blog, Airtel subscribers can now send tweets at standard rates and receive tweets for free. Apparently, the tie-up with Twitter would be exclusive just for four weeks, indicating that after that period, the service may also be offered by other service providers in India. Presently, the ‘tweeting’ service in India works only on a web or a WAP site.
Apparently, users can send tweets from their Airtel mobile phones just for Re. 1. Reportedly, Bharti Airtel is offering people in every city, village, remote taluk and even the smallest panchayat, the chance to connect to Twitter with no additional fees.
A year ago, Twitter SMS updates were available in India but later Twitter suspended the SMS updates because of the cost associated with them. Subscribers can check out the Twitter service by texting START to 53000 by means of their Airtel handset.
