And if the best development prospects of passing through the Twitter SMS? That is not stupid, while the boundaries of publishing "tweets" are similar to those of sending an SMS, particularly at the character limit. In any case, Bharti Airtel, the leading Indian telecom operator, it firmly believes and is very proud to have signed a deal with Twitter providing the ability to send and receive "tweets" via the SMS protocol. It is thus 110 million mobile subscribers in India who will see the Twitter open doors to them. And they will only have to create a Twitter account to use this new feature.

A very smart partnership opens new development prospects for Twitter that it is increasingly known is not necessarily widely used compared to other social platforms such as Facebook. The network of micro-blogging has thus, via SMS, new opportunities of unprecedented development. Indeed, SMS remains a favorite of the mobile user, regardless of age.

SMS to enable twitter to explode?

Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, moreover, is not fooled and said: "As powerful as the Internet could become for the democratization of information, its scope is limited compared to that of mobile text message, a format is for Twitter. Recalling also that access to Twitter via SMS is already launched in the United States, Canada, New Zealand and England. Having launched a translation service in Latin languages, including French (see article), the SMS option could therefore be quickly extended to more countries. Simply twitter to find carrier partners.

Moreover, the idea of Twitter is not making this feature exclusive. Thus, the agreement with Indian operator does a temporary exclusivity will last only a few weeks before all the market operators can also offer their subscribers using Twitter via SMS. "There are about 1 billion people have Internet access on land but there is more than 4 billion people with mobile phones and Twitter can work on all models for even the simplest of them can send SMS "Biz Stone ends.