Indian celebs too Tweet on Twitter

We all know how Twitter craze is spreading worldwide like a wild fire. Twitter today is being used by Hollywood actors, Football teams, Sportsmen, Celebs as a platform which allows them to interact with their fans on a daily basis. Going by the following list 1 thing is for sure, Indian celebs too are not far behind. Enjoy the following small compilation of some Indian Celebs on Twitter....

A R Rahman @arrahman
Aamir_Khan @Aamir_Khan
Aishwarya Rai @aishwarya_rai
Amrita Rao @Amritarao17
Barkha Dutt @bdutt
Celina Jaitly @CelinaJaitly
Chetan Bhagat @chetan_bhagat
Dino Morea @DinoMorea9
Emraan Hashmi @emraanhashmi
Gul Panag @gulpanag
Imran Khan @1mrankhan
Jacqueline Fernandez @jacquie_furr
Karan Johar @kjohar25
Konkona Sensharma @konkonas
Kunal Deshmukh @kunal_deshmukh
Lara Dutta @DuttaLara
Lisa Ray @Lisaraniray
Madhur Bhandarkar @mbhandarkar
Mahesh Bhatt @MaheshNBhatt
Mallika Sherawat @mallikala
Neha Dhupia @Neha_Dhupia
Pooja Bhatt @PoojaB1972
Pritish Nandy @pritishnandy
Priyanka Chopra @priyankachopra
Rahul Khanna @R_Khanna
Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep
Rajeev Masand @RajeevMasand
Ram Gopal Verma @rgvzoomin
Ranvir Shorey @ranvirshorey
Riteish Deshmukh @Riteishd
Rohan Sippy @rohansippy
Shashi Tharoor @shashitharoor
Shekhar Ravjiani @5hekhar
Sonam Kapoor @sonamkapoor
Sujoy Ghosh @sujoy_g
Uday Chopra @udaychopra
Vir Sanghvi @virsanghvi
Vishal Dadlani @V1SH4L

Bharti Airtel + Twitter = Choo Tweet

Social networking and Micro-blogging service Twitter has partnered with Bharti Airtel India’s largest mobile operator to enable its Indian users to send and receive tweets.

Following details are the details available on Airtel website
New User
• SMS Signup to 53000 @ Re 1 per SMS
• Follow instructions to go ahead and complete the registration

Existing User – Wanting to link their device to the Twitter A/c
• SMS Start to 53000 @ Re 1 per SMS
• Follow instructions to complete linking your Airtel phone to your Twitter A/c

Airtel is believed to have 4 weeks exclusivity for the same during which only Airtel consumers will be able to use the service on SMS across the nation.

Following are the details available on Twitter Blog
Twitter is committed to fostering the open exchange of information because we passionately believe it can have a positive global impact. When people can exchange information freely and publicly they are able to accomplish great things. As powerful as the Internet has become for the democratization of information, its range is limited when compared to mobile texting—a format uniquely native to Twitter. There are over one billion people with internet access on the planet but there are more than four billion people with mobile phones and Twitter can work on all of them because even the simplest of these devices feature SMS.

We have seen people use Twitter to help each other during fuel shortages, track the spread of wildfires, check in during earthquakes, organize major charitable events, spread urgent news efficiently around the world, and much more. In many of these scenarios, texting has been the key. People exchanging information quickly and efficiently with the device that has become essential to everyday life, their mobile phone. In many parts of the world people do not have Internet access but they can text—and that means they can access Twitter.

As we grow, we seek to partner with organizations that share our vision for positive global impact. Our partnership with Bharti Airtel, the largest mobile operator in India, means a huge population of people can now send tweets at standard rates and receive tweets for free. Bharti Airtel is offering people in every city, every village, every remote taluk and even the smallest panchayat the opportunity to connect to Twitter and enjoy the open exchange of information with no added fees. We are proud to have Bharti Airtel as our partner. Give Twitter a try with your Airtel phone by sending START to 53000. And spread the word!

Will Gmail sink in the Wave?

On 27th May 2009 Google publicly demonstrated Google Wave for the first time at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco. This product was touted as "the email of the future". With Google Wave, Google tried to reinvent the inbox, blend e-mail, instant messaging and many more features. The very basic premise on which this product was born was how email would look if it was born today instead of 50 years back.

Now that the baby is born and we are looking at the possible present form of email service, would Google go ahead and kill Gmail? In the long run it would obviously not make any sense for Google to run 2 different websites. Promoting 2 separate brands offering the same core value is always gonna be a costly affair. Look at Android, after launching it Google decided to have Chrome OS. Eventually it will just have Chrome as their standard OS for all the platforms.

Make no mistakes, I am not suggesting that Google will replace our email ids to xyz@gwave.com coz replacing millions of email ids would be a daunting task. What we may end up witnessing is a convergence of Wave and Gmail. To make Google Wave universally acceptable, Google may discontinue www.gmail.com and force us to visit wave.google.com for login. This maybe the only change, but this one change may be bring up huge opportunities for Google. It may help them beat Yahoo, MSN, etc. in IM service. It may help them manage the increasing threat from facebook and twitter.

So is it time to say bye bye Gmail???

Can Twitter ride the Wave???

With Google Wave being launched today there is buzz around that it may be the next Twitter killer. Wave is a one stop package offering a combination of email, instant messaging, and many other collaborative features. It offers a cool drag and drop feature thereby allowing users to share a piece of information, photos, videos, etc among other users.

Most of the features we see in Twitter today viz. search engine, search trends etc are already available with Google and they are the masters of it. Since Wave is their own product chances are that Google may offer much better feature than twitter. Also, host of other features like games, sharing videos etc may just make the entire experience much more exciting than twitter.