Twitter India?

April 23rd, 2007 , by amitagwl

After making waves in USA, I always thought a service like Twitter will be hugely popular in India. To the uninitiated, twitter is a service where you can register and create your channel. Now you can send a messge from your cell phone or IM or web to that channel. Your friends can subscribe to the channel and will get the updates from you.

India already has a vast and growing population of mobile users. SMS are a way of life for all mobile users. And the market is ripe for a service like twitter. While I was thinking about such a service in India, I read few blogs around the same..
On radioblogs

There seems to be a company ActivMobs (No idea why they have a URL “inactiv.com”), that is doing some similar stuff in Karnataka! I will be interested to know who sucks up the cost of outgoing SMS!

Here is an article on economic times. Neeraj roy has an interesting comment in the article :

But managing director and CEO, Neeraj Roy says that such rich VAS’s would never survive in the current eco-system where telcos have walled the gardens, where content providers like him, play. Once these walls have been pulled down, only then he says can such VASs proliferate.

Update: Some one is trying to clone Twitter for Japan: http://www.getacoder.com/projects/clone_social_network_site_48876.html

3 Responses to “Twitter India?”

  1. Siva Says:

    There is another one coming up like Twitter ( infact more than Twitter ) Check out www.yewoh.com

  2. vish Says:

    I found one even better … http://www.tagg.in

  3. Vibha Says:

    Is there something like India will get it own twitter version, like Japan i.e. for Japan http://twitter.jp similarly for India http://twitter.in will release, i got to know from here - http://www.indianweb2.com/2008/04/is-indian-version-of-twitter-getting-ready/

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