Reports also said that a Twitter spokesperson confirmed the partnership but no information yet on the coverage of international users to have access to the new service. But with this service, majority of tweets will not be viewable and users will have limited access to trending topics. Users will need to type in a short code and will then have access to trending topics on Twitter from their respective location.
Facebook and Google Talk have the similar partnership with U2opia. Fonetwish, the company's product allowing users to access Facebook without the Internet but is only working with text-based messages while images and videos won't be viewable. The company already claimed that each month, more than half a million users from around the world access Facebook without Internet. Currently, Twitter has more than 218 million users worldwide of which almost 80% resides outside the United States.
Meanwhile, Facebook is adding its next billion users from emerging markets like South America and Asia which Twitter targets to have the same. In November, Twitter has already highlighted Argentina and South Africa as targets for increased user growth. The company is also including the service available to users with older phones as a step toward accomplishing its goal. The new Internet-free version of Twitter will be available in the first quarter of 2014.
Source: Reuters
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