Bharti Airtel the largest Mobile Carrier network in india has collaborated with Twitter to offer free twitter access on its network till March 12,2012 according to reports by MediaNama. The service is a addition to the already available free twitter status updates subscription using the text messages by registering via the number 53000.
According to Twitter Co-founder and Chairman Jack Dorsey , he mentioned in the AsiaD Conference in October that majority of its users are coming from asian countries and the company plans to focus on the asian market like india,japan and phillipines. The service will be available to around 170 million Bharti Airtel Network user base in india. The Service can be accessed through the url mobile.twitter.com.
This service can be accessed by users even without the data connection plans on their mobile phones as in the free Facebook service which doesn’t require a data connection registration. Using this service the users can post tweets, follow friends and celebrities, and access twitter trends and news for free.
This move has been in realizing the raise in social networking potential in india . FaceBook had already offered free access to its service with tie up’s with over 50 service providers from March 2010 and free Facebook data access through “Every Phone Java” app from July 2011 with over 20 service providers with 4 from India including Airtel, Aircel , Idea and Reliance.
This service is available till 1,March 2012.
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