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By: Webaroo launches GupShup - Indian Twitter « Startup Dunia - Indian startups and Entrepreneurship

Wed, 23 May 2007 04:14:37 +0000

[...] Close on the heels of my post on a Twitter like service for India, Webaroo has announced the launch of GupShup, a group SMS service. Create a group (or your own channel), invite your friends to join your group. Any SMS you send to the group will be then automatically forwarded to all those who have joined your group. You also have the option to keep your group and its messages private. The messages posted to all non-private groups appear on their website. Users can also create polls, quizzes and also solicit ratings from the group members. [...]

By: pranav

pranav — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 17:05:09 +0000

Gaurav,

i guess thats the reason why mobile pundits worldwide are still trying to figure out would work for mobile advertising and what wouldnt.

By: SMS based mobile social networks in India « Startup Dunia - Indian startups and Entrepreneurship

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 22:39:52 +0000

[...] Wow. Call it a coincidence ? Just a couple of days back, I wrote about an Indian Twitter like service – an SMS based mobile social network for India. [...]

By: b-singh

b-singh — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:57:43 +0000

I guess some of the similar features are already on indyarocks.com

By: Gaurav

Gaurav — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 06:33:46 +0000

I never thought about it. It seems like a good idea to me. A lot of people should subscribe to a service like twitter, but with a difference. Creating groups is a necessary feature for Indian audience. You wouldn’t want to send same message to your friends and family members.

Forwarding sms to groups would be cheaper as you will be only charged for 1 sms to the twitter like service. The service will have to bear the cost of forwarding the sms to the whole group. So far the SMS revenue generation has been user based through regular and premium messages.

It’ll be good to see a service changing this model. Letting users send SMS for free or really cheap to multiple recepients in return of “Advertising” appended to the SMS. I think one of the limitations here would be 140 (or is it 160?) character limit for SMS. It will be hard to append advertisments in an SMS.