{"id":83550,"date":"2012-02-13T18:42:40","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T10:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/twitter-enters-sms-partnerships-with-iridium-thuraya\/"},"modified":"2012-02-13T18:42:40","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T10:42:40","slug":"twitter-enters-sms-partnerships-with-iridium-thuraya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/twitter-enters-sms-partnerships-with-iridium-thuraya\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Enters SMS Partnerships with Iridium, Thuraya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[02-13-12] Social networking service <b>Twitter<\/b> has entered into a partnership with MSS satellite operators <b>Iridium<\/b> and <b>Thuraya<\/b> to give their subscribers access to SMS text-based Twitter services, the companies confirmed Feb. 10.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;Twitter officials said the new partnership would help guarantee greater global access to the micro-blogging network. For customers with carriers that don\u2019t support Twitter SMS, the company has set up \u201clong codes,\u201d which they can use to send tweets after setting up a Twitter account for long code use.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cNow, even if phone lines and the Internet are inaccessible \u2013 for example, in a war zone or after a natural disaster \u2013 people will be able to share news and stay informed via Twitter. Where cell towers are susceptible to being knocked offline by weather, earthquakes or military attack, satellite networks are often more stable,\u201d Twitter said a company statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[02-13-12] Social networking service Twitter has entered into a partnership with MSS satellite operators Iridium and Thuraya to give their subscribers access to SMS text-based Twitter services, the companies confirmed Feb. 10. &nbsp; &nbsp;Twitter officials said the new partnership would help guarantee greater global access to the micro-blogging network. For customers with carriers that don\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}