Twitter India Story, Signups in 2010 Increase by 100%.
Twitter India story is taking everybody by surprise. Year 2010 has seen, sign-ups double up. Twitter’s phenomenal rise has been mainly on account of Indian celebrities embracing Twitter in a big way. Shashi Tharoor and Bollywood mega-stars Sharukh Khan, Priyanka Chopra and Abhishek Bachchan have loads of followers on their respective Twitter account. Some other celebrities being upper house member Pritish Nandy @pritishnandy, news anchors Barkha Dutt @bdutt and Vir Sanghvi @virsanghvi, plus media outlets MTV India @MTVindia and NDTV @ndtv. In addition Twitter has a tie-up with Bharti Airtel, the number one mobile operator in India which ensures that a large population who are subscribers of Airtel’s mobile network can send their Tweets at standard SMS rates.
Bharti Airtel is offering people the opportunity to connect to Twitter and enjoy the open exchange of information with no added fees. Give Twitter a try with your Airtel phone by sending START to 53000. And spread the word!
Twitter has been on roll in other parts of world as well. Its usages and fresh signups seem to be plateauing out in US but else where Twitter is growing at enormous pace.
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