Comments on: Updated: Facebook Inks Mobile Deal In India With SMS Gupshup

By: jonty

jonty — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:00:38 +0000

hiiiiiiii friemd

By: Sujay

Sujay — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 11:59:04 +0000

What's cost of per sms?

By: Mohit Hira

Mohit Hira — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:38:34 +0000

Nikhil: there's something people are missing here even though it's a piece of trivia.

Assuming that more smartphones are being sold in India and that their users are GPRS-enabled and go onto Facebook, they'd have to use a QWERTY keypad, right?

Now, try punching in 92FACEBOOK (as mentioned by you above) and see what number comes up.

Sadly, this is also what Facebook's mobile app states – evidently they haven't been smart enough to factor in QWERTY-based smartphones :-)

By: shaikh zaheer

shaikh zaheer — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:46:06 +0000

By: steve

steve — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:46:23 +0000

While it could be an opportunity for SMSGupshup, it could equally be challenging to monetize. SMS ad inserts have not worked and have not given returns to advertisers. But I am afraid that it would get the SMS marketing to go down further in terms of rates and results

By: Sms Master

Sms Master — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:44:56 +0000

Hard to believe it earns that much. I always thought that they are making looses. Sms Market in India is growing

By: Mohak

Mohak — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:47:17 +0000

Orkut remained a product, Facebook was developed to be a platform :)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:44:42 +0000

interesting development as smsgupshup according to their CEO Beerud is earning $150000 in revenues a month. This tie up would bring in more users as well as real estate to show case their ads

By: Righthalf

Righthalf — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:46:49 +0000

This is probably the case because Facebook's developer tools and platform is more open than Orkut. It is easy to integrate without having to speak or negotiate with any human. Gupshup integration is probably a feature built using the regular API's, and not a classic bizdev deal.