Twitter Buys a Text Messaging Company

Sunday, April 25, 2010 8:49
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twitter-follow-me-postTwitter was first born as a text-messaging service. The limit of tweets are 140 characters, as it is the length of an SMS message, minus a few characters for the name of the author. Today, more people in the U.S. take Twitter as a web tool, and use it either online or via phone applications.
But Twitter is also for the ones in the world, who don’t have a smartphones. The company announced on Friday that it acquired the Seattle-text messaging start-up—Cloudhopper. There will be “untapped potential” with Twitter text message use.
Now, according to the mobile products and partnerships with Twitter—Kevin Thau, Twitter processed manages more than one billion SMS tweets per month.

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