txtWeb ropes up one billion transactions

txtWeb, a global open platform for text-based applications has crossed the one billion mark. The firm claims that this milestone underscores txtWeb's commitment of empowering individuals with access to information and entertainment disregard to mobile internet.

This service allows the users to dig out information on various topics via internet by SMSing keywords such as @wiki, @email, @cri, @gold, @movies etc to 51115. The platform is being used across India by millions of users now with millions of mobile phone users using one or more of the 3500 active apps built by developers and businesses across India.

Commenting on touching this milestone, Manish Maheshwari, Managing Director, txtWeb said "We are delighted with the success we have achieved in such a short span of time. txtWeb is the world's largest app store for text-based apps, which works across multiple messaging platforms such as SMS, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and Google Talk. It is an open platform that benefits the masses, empowering them with information and knowledge irrespective of the mobile device they use. This significant achievement would not have been possible without the faith and trust of our users, who believed in the platform and helped popularize it. I thank them for their continued patronage to txtWeb."

Those are still not using the app can do so at Re.1/SMS, and the service is available on telecom operators like the Airtel, Vodafone, Aircel, Idea and Tata.