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Now, Twitter to be available on mobile phones without internet connection
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your mobile does not have an internet connection, but wish to access
social networking site Twitter, you can do it by using U2opia Mobile's
app Fonetwish soon. For this Twitter has forged hands with
Singapore-based mobile solutions provider U2opia. This will benefit 70
crore mobile users in India.
U2opia is already in pact with Twitter’s rival offering USSD-based
service Facebook to deliver Facebook information and allow Google Talk
to 11 million of its users who do not have a readily available data
connection.
Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) protocol allows mobile phones to communicate with a service provider's computer.
This is likely to give a huge fillip to Twitter which has approximately
230 million users. Recently it has seen massive growth in emerging
markets like India. Brazil and Indonesia.
According to U2opia Mobile CEO Sumesh Menon, Mobile users who do not
have 2G, 3G, GPRS, etc on their handsets will have to dial a standard
code through which they be able to access Twitter feed.
He said that this also give a boost to the user base in other emerging
markets like Ghana. Nigeria, Paraguay, Salvador, Haiti, and Honduras.