Twitter and Vodafone have recently announced a new service exclusively for Vodafone customers in the UK. This new service will allow users to send updates to and receive SMS notifications from the popular messaging network.
The new service allows you to receive text messages from people that you choose to follow via SMS on Twitter. Users can also send text messages to a short code (86444) for tweets, @replies or to follow people on the go. Thus, this new easy-to use service offers fast mobile access to one of the most popular social networks in the world.
“We are delighted to be the only operator in the UK today to offer Twitter on SMS to our customers,” comments Al Russell, Head of Vodafone Internet services at Vodafone UK. “Since we made social networks on the move both simple to use and great value, customers have flocked to using these services which have exploded in popularity.”
“Mobile texting extends the power of Twitter’s real-time network in a simple but significant way,” adds Kevin Thau Director of Mobile Business Development at Twitter. “Twitter is the messaging network you didn’t know you needed until you experience it over SMS.”
When Vodafone customers receive text messages from twitter with a URL they can click on the link and access the web page directly from their mobile phones.
The service will be available for free for the first few weeks after the launch, it will become a part of your bundle. To continue the service after the free trail period the users without bundles will have to pay the normal charges while the text message updates sent from Twitter will be free.