Big fan of Twitter? Twitter addict? Can’t stop tweeting even when you go to the toilet? Good news for all the Twitter maniacs out there, now you can tweet through your mobile phone by sending tweets in the form of SMS.
The only sad news is that this service is currently only available for Airtel subscribers, but…. will be active only for a month. This is only to make you not forget that Airtel started the Twitter service first in India. And thus this is an exclusive offer for all you Airtel customers out there. For others, its not. Anyways this is the official statement:
“Twitter will be available in India on SMS only on the Airtel network. There is exclusivity for the same for 4 weeks, in which only Airtel consumers will be able to use the service on SMS across the nation. This period of exclusivity is something that we want to take advantage of and make sure that Brand Airtel can own the property Twitter in consumer mind space. “
Here’s how to get started:
Send an SMS from ‘your’ mobile phone to 53000 with the text ‘START’ if you already have a Twitter account or ‘SIGNUP’ if you are new to the world of Tweets. If this doesn’t work out for you (can’t explain why), then you can go to twitter.com, open the Twitter Devices page and link your mobile to your Twitter account. After this go away from your computer, take a deep breath, open your mind, think of some really awesome tweet that is worth a buck for you and send the SMS to 53000. Your tweet will then be visible on your profile. This is the official list of all Twitter text commands that you can send from your mobile phone to interact with your Twitter followers.
Here’s how to not get started:
Simplest way is to not do it at all, but if you thought it was cool and you already did it, then you can send OFF, STOP, or QUIT command from your mobile phone to 53000. Use “ON” to start again.
Twitter won’t be charging you anything for sending tweets through your phone, but Airtel takes 1 buck. Anyways, happy tweeting.
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