Joe Lauer, the founder of Cloudhopper and Simplewire, one of the first SMS aggregators in North America acquired by Qpass in 2006, announced this fact on Twitter (pic.).
Cloudhopper is the Australian startup. It provides mobile messaging technology and expertise to businesses in the wireless space and has been working with Twitter for about 8 months. With Cloudhopper, Twitter hopes to grow and scale its SMS service and connect directly to mobile carrier networks in countries all over the planet.
Now Twitter processes close to a billion SMS tweets per month and that number is growing.
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