Twitter announced Friday the acquisition of companies moving Cloudhopper messages. Contract terms were not disclosed. Cloudhopper, who worked for eight months with Twitter, allowing Twitter to connect directly to network service providers in countries around the world, singing words. This acquisition will “help us to promote growth and scale of our SMS service,” wrote Kevin Thau, who works on mobile products and partnerships on Twitter, post on the blog.

“Twitter is inspired by the SMS and we continue to adopt this simple technology, but everywhere,” said Thau. “In fact, Twitter limit 140 characters is specially designed to allow any tweet should be read as a whole if you use basic mobile phone, or a more advanced Internet enabled devices.” Cloudhopper was founded in late 2008 by Joe Lauer.

This patented technology that “the inventory and the underlying software infrastructure to scale reliably and geographically dispersed among the highest worldwide volume of mail programs – all with zero downtime “according to the website of the company. During his keynote presentation at this year’s show in Las Vegas CTIA trade, founder Biz Stone said Twitter SMS is a great opportunity for business growth.

“There are more than four billion mobile phone accounts worldwide, all are basically Twitter-ready,” said Stone. “Compare that to the PC is approximately two billion dollars, so it creates a huge growth opportunity for us .. When a farmer in a rural village in a Third World country can obtain information via SMS can have a significant impact on his life. We ‘ve Twitter is always happy to work up rudimentary network of SMS text and high technology.

” Last year, Twitter has announced partnerships with several mobile operators around the world who can tweet text. In December 2009, the Twitter Twitter SMS has been launched in Australia with Telstra partners. previous month, the company partnered with Axis in Indonesia to provide tweets by SMS in this country.

Twitter is also available in India via SMS service provider Bharti Airtel, with O2 UK to Vodafone customers in New Zealand, and all major carriers in Canada. Earlier this month, Twitter has announced that the iPhone is obtained from clients Atebits Tweetie.

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