Twitip Getting more out of twitter Follow 102,289 followers Subscribe 20,083 subscribers starters guide getting followers tools tips business people news add a tip Lara Kulpa @larakulpa Twitter Stalking via SMS 6 So you’ve always been able to “Twitter Stalk&# someone by just going to their Twitter page (example: www.twitter.com/personyoustalk) but now there’s an easier way, via your cell phone. Or at least an iphone This feature seems pretty useless. However now you can utilize “Fast Follow&# by texting “follow USERNAME&# to 40404. crazy, right?). MORE >>

Quora , the nascent question and answer site founded by a small team of former Facebookers, has expanded its mobile capabilities in the last week with the addition of posting questions by SMS, letting you interact with the service via text message, starting initially with US support. While remaining primarily desktop Web centric, this addition opens the door for mobile question posting for impulse queries, and mirrors the heavy reliance on SMS from another Valley high-flier, Twitter , who continues to count its texting users among the most active and most loyal. Quora MORE >>

Little wonder that SMS is the most widely used data application on the planet. Achieving App Impact: Using SMS To Encourage Ongoing Engagement. Featured Mobile Advertising & Marketing Permission Marketing Gemalto Mobile Marketing Association smartphone SMS Tomi AhonenIn mobile, shift happens — often — and once again we could count on the recent Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) Forum event to provide insights marketers need to know in order to navigate the tough terrain ahead. Be sure to check out her follow-up analysis that just went live today.). MORE >>

This is the key takeaway of COMMUNICATE, CONNECT & CURATE: 3 ways you can encourage mobile app re-engagement with SMS, a new whitepaper that I have written based on input from mobile interaction specialist tyntec and interviews with mobile authorities including Tomi Ahonen and Jon Mew, Director of Mobile & Operations, IAB UK. This new white paper also picks up where my first white paper, Achieving App Impact: Using SMS To Encourage Interaction, Drive Loyalty , left off. Featured Mobile Apps White PapersCurate: Take charge of your app and build a community. a U.S.-based MORE >>

billion in lost SMS revenue last year. In South Korea, for example, the staggering popularity of social messaging services such as KakaoTalk and Daum’s MyPeople have driven down SK Telecom’s SMS traffic considerably. Put another way, mobile operators may be losing SMS revenues, but they are also gaining smartphone subscribers and the data plans that come as part of the package. Informa is still forecasting that SMS will remain a multi-billion dollar industry for mobile operators through 2016, with global SMS revenues rising from US$114.9 In a word: buoyant. MORE >>