Twitter buys Seattle startup, second purchase this month (AFP)

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Twitter declared weekday that it had bought Cloudhopper, a diminutive SMS profession company, in the ordinal acquisition by the favourite micro-blogging assist this month.

The Seattle-based Cloudhopper is a messaging stock concern that helps Twitter enter direct to ambulatory traveler networks around the world, Twitter said in a journal post.

Financial cost of the acquire were not disclosed.

While Twitter is most ofttimes accessed from Internet-enabled ambulatory devices or computers, the San Francisco-based consort recalled that its origins as a communication assist of 140 characters or inferior came from SMS book messaging.

Twitter said it had already been employed with Cloudhopper "to embellish digit of the maximal intensity SMS programs in the world."

"Twitter processes near to a 1000000000 SMS tweets per period and that sort is ontogeny around the concern from state to Australia, the UK, the US, and beyond," Twitter said.

Cloudhopper, supported in 2008, is a two-person operation.

Earlier this month, Twitter declared the acquisition of Atebits, a consort that matured an iPhone information for Twitter.

Revealing individual drawing for the prototypal instance since it launched in March 2006, Twitter said terminal hebdomad that it has lidded 105 meg qualified users and is adding 300,000 newborn accounts a day.