Internet-less access to Twitter is coming to entry level phones used in emerging markets, in a tie up with Singapore’s U2opia Mobile.
The lo-tech solution brings Twitter over 11 million people using U2opia’s Fonetwish service. The users dial the code *325# to recieve the latest feed of trending topics on Twitter. Fonetwish has a similiar tie-up with Facebook and uses a telecom protocol named USSD, or Unstructured Supplementary Service Data, which does not allow viewing of pictures, videos or other graphics.
Only 20% of telecom users in emerging markets have access to data on their phones.
