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Airtel announces Free Twitter Access for it Mobile Customers

Airtel Introduces Free Mobile Access To Twitter In India

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Airtel announces Free Twitter Access for it Mobile Customers

Bharti Airtel, today announced that it will offer free access to Twitter for all its mobile customers in India. This is a limited period offer till March 2012 and can be availed by either accessing the Twitter’s mobile site, or using SMS shortcodes. Airtel was also one of the few mobile carriers around the world and first in India that partnered with Twitter to provide SMS codes for accessing Twitter services in 2009.

Here is what Airtel’s Chief Marketing Officer N Rajaram had to say about this offering during the press release “Today’s discerning Indian customer is increasingly relying on the mobile device for accessing everything from emails to music to social networks. In conjunction with this trend, we are pleased to introduce 90 days of free access to Twitter for mobile users in India”.

Here is how you can get free twitter access on Airtel:

Twitter’s mobile website: Visit http://mobile.twitter.com (either with or without GPRS subscription), follow the sign up process by entering your mobile number!

USING SMS: You will need to send SMS with START to 53000 to begin the process of opening a twitter and go on further.  Additional details are available at www.airtel.in/twitter

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Fail Snail Klout

Twitter Has Whale, Klout Has Snail, What Will Google+ Have For A Fail?

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Gone or the days when the web pages used to look dull and bland the moment services went down! Companies are now adopting innovative and creative ways when the services go down and also cache in on the way messages are displayed.

Fail Whale Fail Snail

Those of you who have come across the occasional downtimes on Twitter are very familiar with Fail Whale. It was originally designed by Yiying Lu . Although Twitter did not request her for such designs or paid for it, it became a sort of legend and has cult following. Various services, products, merchandises are now built on it! Yes, you can read the amazing story of Fail Whale HERE

Fail Snail Klout

Klout, which provides social media analytics, measuring a user’s influence across their social network also has a similar page. When its service goes down they have adopted a Snail and is termed Fail Snail. Fail Snail is seen barfing some hex code

What do you think Google+ must have for a fail / when its services go down? Comment and let the world know 🙂

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