SMSGupShup Gets $10 Million Funding

I recently reported on Indian startup SMSGupShup and how Twitter could learn a lot from the way they have built their architecture.

It seems that people were listening, with TechCrunch reporting that Webaroo Technology, the company behind SMSGupShup has raised $10 million in a third round of funding.

As previously mentioned, SMSGupShup shares many similarities in functionality with Twitter, but does not suffer the same outages, despite having 7 times the number of users and 3 times the number of daily messages.

As well as the different architecture, another reason for the increased reliability of SMSGupShup over Twitter could be the fact that most of the users are using only a mobile phone to interact with the service, whereas Twitter, due to it’s API, has numerous mobile and Web based sites and services linking to updates.