Airtel subscribers can now access Twitter on their mobile phones free of cost till 1st March 2012. They can visit mobile.twitter.com or SMS 53000 from their mobile phones to get access to Twitter free without any data charges. This would let the users to view their timeline, find and follow accounts, post new Tweets, see Tweets mentioning them, and reply to other users and retweet their Tweets for free. Those who doesn’t have an account can sign up for Twitter or subscribe to SMS updates of specific users (via short code 53000) on their mobile phones free for the period of this offer.
- To Create a new account on Twitter on 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 would be created. Sign up is only required if a user wants to tweet
- Follow specific Twitter users on SMS: To receive updates from a specific user, SMS Follow to 53000. Users can follow others on Twitter on SMS even without having a Twitter account of their own
You will need to select airtel live or mobile office or airtel internet as your access point to use twitter if it’s not set already. Data charges are applicable if the customer uses third-party urls posted in tweets.