How to Use Airtel's New Twitter via SMS Service in India

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets.

Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to the author’s subscribers who are known as followers. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access.

Previously Airtel had launched its airtel broadband account management for their customers and now they are back with a bang. Airtel become the first company to launch Twitter’s SMS based Service in India.

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What’s new with Twitter via SMS @ Airtel ?

Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications. The service today in India works only on a web or a WAP site (basically needing the consumer to be internet ready).

Finally Twitter will be available in India on SMS only on the Airtel network. There is exclusive period, in which only Airtel consumers will be able to use the service on SMS across the nation.

How to register for Twitter from your Airtel Mobile ?

New User

• SMS Signup to 53000 @ Re 1 per SMS
• Follow instructions to go ahead and complete the registration

Existing User – Wanting to link their mobile to the Twitter A/c

• SMS Start to 53000 @ Re 1 per SMS
• Follow instructions to complete linking your Airtel phone to your Twitter A/c

General Guidelines & Keywords to Twitter Use : Link

Additional Details before using Twitter for the First Time :

• 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.

Twitter Text Commands for using Twitter SMS In India – Link

Well, this is an excellent marketing strategy by Airtel because there are millions of twitter users in India. And using twitter from the mobile device become only a bit easier. Though Airtel is going to charge you for every SMS tweet, but still there are some comforts of using the best microblogging service from a hand held device.

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So Will you be Using this Twitter SMS Service of Airtel ? What you Liked & Didn’t Like … let us know via Comments

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