Airtel has announced that it will provide free access to Twitter till 01 Mar 2012 and as a net result more than 170 million Airtel mobile users will be able to enjoy free Twitter access via mobile.twitter.com.
Another method is to use the SMS shortcode 53000 to sign up for Twitter and even Tweet or receive Tweets from specified users. Thus now you need not have enabled for GPRS or have a high end phone
Now the question arises that how one can access Twitter using Airtel service
- Visit mobile.twitter.com (with or without GPRS subscription), follow simple sign up process by entering your mobile number and here you go!
- SMS ‘START’ to 53000, upon receiving reply – SMS ‘SIGNUP’ to 53000. Next, type a username (unique and less than 15 characters) and send that to 53000. Once Twitter approves your username, you will get a confirmation message, prompting you to SMS a chosen password to 53000. On completion of this process, your Twitter account will be created. Sign up is only required if a user wants to tweet!
How to Follow specific Twitter users on SMS
- To receive updates from a specific user, SMS ‘Follow <username>’ to 53000.
- Users can follow others on Twitter on SMS even without having a Twitter account of their own
Twitter is the most happening site which is giving competition to Facebook, Google and Microsoft. Even Google had incorporated Twitter snippets in its search results but their marriage ended in a divorce due to some differences with Twitter. Thus now one can use Twitter the micro blogging network and can follow us by visiting the link http://www.twitter.com/askanalyst
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