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.