Twitter has announced a new partnership with the major satellite providers to give their subscribers access to Twitter SMS, a new tool that looks really interesting as it allows you to use the network without a network connection.
According to a statement released a few days ago, the company has partnered with Iridium and Thuraya, the two largest satellite providers in the world, to increase the number of people who can use Twitter in the world. The company said that the new partnership will help to ensure greater access to global network of microblogging and added:
Now, even if phone lines and the Internet are inaccessible — for example, in a war zone or after a natural disaster — people will be able to share news and stay informed via Twitter..
Satellite networks, in fact, are often more stable in certain conditions and by the way the partnership takes the company close to its roots, those of standardized messaging. When Twitter was born (2006), it was designed to easily send a short message to a group of people. Once the service has grown, Twitter has launched its own platform then becomes famous around the world.
However, tweets can still be sent via SMS, and is the feature that made Twitter popular in many parts of the world with poor connectivity to mobile broadband.
Not yet know all the details of the initiative, but given the strong growth of this social network is reasonable to think that this initiative will bring new users and new life to a platform that distinction in the experiments of this type.
[Twitter]
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