As yet another sign that the global IT players are trying to get users in developing countries, the social online service Twitter purchased Cloud Hopper, a new American specialist in bulk handling of text messages (SMS).
The rich use Twitter mainly through computers or smart phones. In developing countries, this is not appropriate, and Twitter are seeking to establish a business model where small businesses, artisans, farmers with more to reach potential customers by twittering per text message.
A condition for this to succeed, is a solution for coordinating the Web service using SMS service. Cloud Hopper, which was established in Seattle in the U.S. state of Washington in 2008, this specialty. On their website explains Cloud Hopper that they have developed software and infrastructure to scale up and disseminate the SMS and MMS services over large areas, with zero downtime.
Twitter was created in his time as a text message service: It is the historical reason why one can not twittering with more than 140 characters at a time.
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In a blog post published Friday, says Twitter that they've worked with Cloud Hopper in the last eight months to provide twitter services via SMS. They say that Twitter now handles nearly one billion SMS twittring’s per month.
Cloud Hopper allows Twitter to connect directly to mobile networks around the globe, so that the costs of using Twitter via SMS decreased significantly.
