To see the popular trending topics on Twitter, a network that partly relies on hashtags to connect its users, people without Internet will dial a simple code, according to Chief Executive and co-founder Sumesh Menon.
Date: Dec 07, 2013
Source: Google
Twitter Coming to Users With Basic Cell Phones and No Internet Access
"USSD as a vehicle for Twitter is almost hand in glove because Twitter has by design a character limit, it's a very text-driven social network," Chief Executive and co-founder Sumesh Menon told Reuters.
U2opia Chief Executive and Co-founder Sumesh Menon said that the company uses a telecom protocol named USSD, or Unstructured Supplementary Service Data, which does not allow viewing of pictures, videos or other graphics.
Date: Dec 06, 2013
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
Twitter to be available on mobile phones without Internet
service available to users in emerging markets who have entry-level mobile phones which cannot access the Internet. U2opia Mobile, which has a similar tie-up with Facebook Inc, will launch its Twitter service in the first quarter of next year, Chief Executive and Co-founder Sumesh Menon told Reuters.
Date: Dec 05, 2013
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
No Internet? Twitter to arrive for the unconnected
"For a lot of end users in the emerging markets, it's going to be their first Twitter experience," Sumesh Menon, CEO and co-founder of U2opia, told Reuters. Menon noted that 8 out of 10 people in emerging markets do not have access to the Internet on their mobile phones.