Twitter on Friday announced the acquisition of a small Seattle-based wireless technology company named Cloudhopper. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but it's sure to be tiny. In a
blog post, Twitter says it's been working with Cloudhopper for eight months. The top microblogging platform also now claims to process upwards of a billion SMS tweets per month -- a number that
continues to grow exponentially around the world.
Twitter says the deal will help it "further grow and scale our SMS service," while allowing it "to connect directly to mobile carrier
networks in countries all over the planet." According to TechCrunch, this acquisition marks Twitter's fifth, after picking up smaller startups like Summize, Values of n and more recently Mixer Labs
and Tweetie maker Atebits.