Help Us Test Our India Shortcode
We know there's lots of folks in India who like Twitter. We've already noticed some cricket action and at least one Bollywood movie. We'd like to see more people in India take advantage of Twitter. So, if you have friends or family that live in India (or if you live in India yourself), you can help us spread the word about our India shortcode: 5566511. Using this shortcode means not having to pay international SMS charges when using Twitter from India.Some Things To Note
SMS messages are limited to 250 per week for folks outside the US. If you come close to the upper limit in a week, we'll let you know in advance. We're also aware of a few wrinkles that have yet to be smoothed out surrounding verification on certain operators. Please let us know how the India shortcode works for you.
39 Comments:
Bring ShortCode to Ireland! :-P
Thanks for shorthand India code :-)
Great! Now we'd like that in Australia, too!
I think this number has already been there for a while now ,it works great but i think these are some kind of special numbers ,the service providers charge us more than then normal sms charges.but anyways lesser than the international sms rates .
That's exciting news...Thanx for the shortcode...
didn't work for me!
Anyone else getting an error msg when u try to activate your mobile phone?
I get a "This service is not enabled yet" message when I try to verify my phone.
There's also an international cricket feed at testcricket covering all international matches. Not ball by ball, but every wicket, and 4 score updates an hour per match :)
Thanks for the code, even though I've been using it for quite a few months now. It did not work on my previous connection, but works great on my connection right now.
I've been leaving my replies at the getsatisfaction.com page for this same topic too :)
Im sure this would give twitter more visibility in india :-)
it works ........Thanks
To Twitter India users - how cost to use the service? Is it a subscription or are you charged per message?
as per the cost I am in Airtel, sending msg to twitter cost Rs.3 and the international sms costs Rs.5 .
I generally use gprs to send msg which costs much lesser than sending a sms.
hey is it likely to see special code for italy in the future?
for normal sms charge please integrate GME .Contact cellnext solution pvt. ltd for that.Then it will cost as normal local sms.
hi! unable to receive the updates on the twitter page thru SMS... anybody f1! f1! - Help!
hey the shortcode works - thanks guys !!!!
not working with hutch post-paid in chennai and airtel prepaid in calcutta
Not working for me. I get this error note, "Message not sent. Please try again later". Didn't work later as well.
Doesn't work on Vodafone India.
Ticket 94412 still unresolved.
Nope. Short code is not working for India for a long time. I've never seen that working even once.
Doesnt work for me. My message is sent successfully and I receive a response "Default Message" . The message doesn't appear on my page.
It has not been working for me since the shortcode was introduced. Check http://tinyurl.com/34sm7b
ok.. its works for me, but with a delay of at least for an hour! Now i will wait for my bill to know.. how much would it cost me...
oops..doesn't work for me either. service provider: MTNL Dolphin (Mumbai). Maybe I need to switch services?
It didn't work for me..Got a response saying "This information is not available at the moment.Please try after some time". Can you please take care Twitter?
Regarding the cost of the service, international text messages cost me Rs.3. Text to this short code also cost the same for me as this is classified as a Value Added Service by my operator. SO whats the difference for me? Moreover short code is not working too.. If you can make the cost the same as the cost for a local message(which is free for my plan) then i would be delighted!!! :)
One thing useful is there is no need to remember that lengthy U.K number
You should consider getting few local numbers in india..
Atleast you can check your graphs/logs and decide which cities in india get the most tweets..
You could then get different numbers for different states, Indian states are huge as big and few of the countries..
I guess you should initiate this quickly as the short codes are costly.. as much as 10-100times than normal SMS charges in india..
I guess 5-6 numbers to india would be sufficient.. or best is get a toll free sms number..
Doesnt work on Vodafone, Bombay...I got this msg " This service is not yet enabled" :((
I hope this works out soon... maybe twitter can partner with smsgupshup or mytoday for this service..
doesn't work for me either. I am in Vodafone A.P circle.
If anyone can help, it will be most appreciated.
doesn't work on Vodafone pre-paid in Bangalore either.
It seems like Vodafone is blocking SMS to the shortcode number?
It was working for me previously but now it no longer works. I'm using Reliance India Mobile's CDMA service.
Is there something like India will get it own twitter version, like Japan i.e. for Japan http://twitter.jp similarly for India http://twitter.in will release, i got to know from here - http://www.indianweb2.com/2008/04/is-indian-version-of-twitter-getting-ready/
...but cudn't get exactly, is it speculation or??.. can you guys clear this ..?!!?
Sending from Vodafone India prepay mobile sends back "This service is not enabled yet."
This is not working on Vodafone (Bangalore)
Works with Airtel in Delhi
I tried sending upto five sms's through airtel (Tamil Nadu Circle) to the short code, in vain!
I can confirm that it does not work for Airtel (Chennai/TN).
Thank you.
1. Works with Airtel Andhra Pradesh circle.
2. Charges are INR 3 per sms (+ 12.5% tax etc)
3. I was able to post to twitter using this number.
4. However, I don't get any incoming msgs/sms from twitter when somebody else/me post msgs. Yes, I have already enabled this.
Airtel chennai doesn't seem to work.
tried in vain for almost a week
its not working with my new airtel connection in vellore tamil nadu. earlier worked great with bsnl. twitter, pls get a local numbers in india. i guarantee, u will have a blasting traffic.
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