Nikhil Vishnu

Airtel launched ‘Twitter on SMS’ service

Tweeples India, there is a good news for you. Airtel launched ‘Twitter on SMS’ or ‘TweetSMS’ service in India, now you can tweet from your mobile phone even if you don’t have an internet connection. If you are an Airtel subscriber you can use tweetSMS by simply signing up to the number 53000. If you already have a twitter account yes there is an option for linking your twitter account to your device. Airtel charging Re 1 per SMS to the short code. Check the quote from Airtel website

India is the third largest market for twitter. 5 million peoples using twitter from India and the total number of twitter users is 11.5 million. They may love the service .

What is that any consumer needs to be able to use Twitter @ Airtel?

There are 3 types of consumers on Twitter –

New User – SMS Signup to 53000

Existing User with only a Twitter id but having linked the mobile phone to the Twitter account – SMS Signup to 53000

Existing User with a Twitter id and having linked the Mobile number to the id – The consumer will be directly active on the service. There will be nothing that the consumer will have to do.