How?
Reported by Reuters on Friday, December 6, 2013, in order to provide the service, Twitter took U2opia Mobile, pioneering companies from Singapore.
Chief Executive and Co - founder U2opia Mobile, Sumesh Menon explains, users simply enter a simple code to get feed ongoing trending topic on Twitter.
Menon said that 8 out of 10 people in emerging markets are still not using the data on their phones.
To bring this service, U2opia Mobile telecommunication protocol called USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data), in which users simply assigned the status updates in the form of text, no image content, video or graphics.
“USSD as a powerful vehicle for considering Twitter is designed with a limited character.’s Social network is determined by the text, " said Menon.
Currently, services are developed U2opia it has been present in 30 countries with seven languages . The Singapore Company will attempt to localize Twitter content according to the user's location.
“Some people in Paraguay will definitely get the local content is very, very different from the users in Mumbai, “said Menon.
He added that for many users in developing countries, this is their first experience of Twitter.
Twitter without Internet access service will be available officially in the first quarter of next year.
Before exploring Twitter without Internet service, U2opia has released a similar service, Fonetwish, which helps users access Facebook and Google Talk on a mobile without a data connection. Users even have exceeded 11 million.
The service is in high demand in the market Fonetwish Africa and South America.
U2opia said it took 30-40 per cent of service users Fonetwish paid through local telecommunications operators.
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