SMSGupShup, a Twitter-like assist in India, is effort a ton of sound over here in the U.S., too. In an discourse with CEO Beerud Sheth today says the assist today has 20 meg users (and that’s without an appearance on Oprah), nearly every of which are in India. That’s up from 7 meg New terminal year.

The assist crapper exclusive be accessed via SMS, which entireness meet dustlike for India’s 400 meg ambulatory sound users (there are meet 40 meg band cyberspace users, Sheth says). Users clew up and ingest the assist every via book messages. They never requirement to meet the website at all.

The service’s important uncertain costs are fees for book messages, and Sheth says that they’ve had to compel caps to ready costs low control. But as the assist grows, says Sheth, they are healthy to discuss such meliorate pricing. Already SMSGupShup accounts for 400 meg monthly book messages, around “5%-6%” of the amount Amerindic market.

Three months past the assist additional business to messages. Three months in and they’re making $150,000/month in revenue. Not intense for a SMS-based service.

The flooded recording discourse is below. Thanks to Robert Scoble who participated shortly in the interview.

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