SMSTweetin Tweet Using SMSHritik is doing, SRK is doing, so Chetan Bhagat and Shashi Tharoor, what’s that? Yep! that’s Twitter – is a free social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets, text-based posts of up to 140 characters.

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Twitter is targeted as SMS based realtime social networking. With growing number of celebrities & business houses joining the Twitterverse, India’s ‘cattle class’ is also following the trend. Recently Twitter passes 10billionth tweet.

Twitter can be accessed over internet, via some apps and of course by sms. Internet and using application (twitter client) means you need a computer with internet connection, so depends on a web browser or install a twitter client or GPRS-enabled handset. Twitter has no sms short code in India, only Airtel customers can use Twitter via sms to 53000, which costs Re1 per sms. And this is only for Airtel customers.

SMSTweet.in comes to fill this gap, it is in service before Airtel came. SMSTweet is a brainchild of Mayank. This application uses SMSGupShup’s platform (Appshup) to receive and respond to user generated SMS and Google App-Engine as the server to run. SMSTweet.in is designed by Rohit and logo was made by Harshad. SMSTweet is applicable to all operators – whether it is CDMA or GSM. And there is no premium charge like sms to 5XYXY costs Rs3 for most operators. At present they have two short codes:  09220092200 (Mumbai) & 09243000111 (Bangalore). So people from Maharastra & Mumbai and Karnataka can use SMSTweet at just local sms rate, while people from other states are to be charged at STD rates. SMSTweet says: ‘In due time we may have a local number for every city.’ If your operator offers national sms free with their sms pack, you can opt it and enjoy SMSTweet free, for eg Reliance offers local and national sms at just 1paisa!