Free SMS Twittering service tips up

MOBILE Social Network, Wadja.com is teaming up with the twits at Twe2 to offer UK users free Twitter SMS alerts, after the microblogging site killed its own messaging service for every country outside of the US, Canada and India last year.

The service lets twits send direct messages and @replies to one another by SMS in the UK as well as internationally, so you can be a twit wherever you are.

The messages are free and funded by the contextual ads bunged onto the bottom of every message, something users don't seem to mind seeing as Twe2 is already boasting 20,000 users and claims to be growing at a rate of 100 per cent a day. The firm also reckons over 100,000 text messages about what people ate for breakfast and how cold it is today have been sent to date.

UK traffic to Twitter has shot up by about 1,000 per cent last year, with the site now ranking in the top 100 websites visited in Britain.

Inevitably, the INQ too has been forced to succumb to twittering madness (@INQ), but thankfully, our resident twit @sylviebarak manages to keep you all informed about how many slices of toast we ate this morning so we can get on with writing news. µ