Twitter on SMS now in India

India’s number one mobile company and the micro-blogging royalty have teamed up to bring “tweets” on India’s mobile phones – even those without wi-fi or data plans. Announced today, the deal between Twitter and Bharti Airtel will allow users to send tweets at standard SMS rates and receive tweets from their followers for free. “There [...]

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“Tweet” isn’t for Twitter…yet

It seems like there’s a race for placing a trademark on the word “Tweet” and Twitter, the microblogging service that popularized it, isn’t in the first place. In U.S. Patent and Trademark Office documents found by blogger Sam Johnson, the site’s application for a trademark on “tweet” has been preliminarily denied. The application was filed on [...]

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