Twitter Buys Cloudhopper For SMS Services

Twitter just announced on their blog this morning that they’ve made another acquisition, Cloudhopper, to boost up their SMS service. This purchase emphasizes Twitters origins as being intended for mobile use, via SMS. While the actual post is a bit vague on details, this acquisition is very likely the first of many, as Twitter fills out a number of areas in their core services.


Twitter might have recently announced annotations, with all the extra space for developer metadata per tweet, but at their core, they were designed, as their blog posts says, “to allow for any tweet to be read in its entirety whether you’re using a rudimentary mobile phone, or a more sophisticated Internet enabled device.”

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