The micro blogging sensation Twitter and the United Kingdom’s telecommunication giant, Orange have joined hands to create a landmark partnership and provide the Twitter UK users, with much awaited MMS (Multimedia Messaging) support. This will ensure that the subscribers of the Orange network will be able to send images and other multimedia content via MMS to their Twitter accounts, all the while receiving incoming Tweets via SMS.

This new agreement will prove to be a a boon, especially for the users, who do not own a smart phone and yet wish to use the ever popular micro blogging website, Twitter. As per the deal between Orange and Twitter, no extra charges will be levied on the subscribers and only standard rates for MMS will be applicable.

Orange is not the only wireless network that enables its subscribers to receive Twitter messages via SMS. Two other leading communication networks, Vodafone and O2 have already provided their subscribers with this facility. However, Orange is the first network to give access to MMS messaging on Twitter. Perhaps, Orange had understood the immense profit potential by allowing access to social networks, via the wireless network.

Orange has also created a mini portal, since he inception of the Twitter MMS service, where all the images uploaded by users can be viewed by users. This new service is called Snapshot. The Orange subscribers can take an image with their phones, select one of the two option, ‘Send via MMS’ or ‘Send multimedia message’ and then send the MMS to 86444.

Via Twitter Blog.