SMSGupShup.com: Send Free Group SMS in India

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Go to the website of SMSGupShup (a social messaging service to share and connect with friends and fans) at www.SMSGupShup.com and send Group SMS all over India totally free.

GupShup is a free group messaging service like Twitter. Users are allowed to create mobile communities and broadcast messages by www.SMSGupShup.com. Users can send messages to their group of friends and also receive messages from them on GupShup. With thousands of topics such as finance, entertainment, lifestyle, health, sports and technology, GupShup is growing quickly.

SMS GupShup was launched in April 2007 and now it serves nearly 26 million users across India. Due to the immense popularity of mobile devices in India, the startup has seen quick growth in users primarily. There are 550 million mobile phone users in the country. At present, SMS GupShup processes more than 480 million messages a month and accounts for 5 percent of all texts sent within India.

GupShup provides the services at free of cost. All SMS messages are forwarded to members of your group for free. For accessing GupShup from mobile phones, you may be charged standard SMS rates (typically Rs. 3 per message). At present, GupShup sends SMS messages only to Indian mobile phone numbers but GupShup users outside India can access GupShup website from their PC or mobile phone and send SMS messages to mobile phones in India.

Some tips for using GupShup:

Be mindful of time and frequency of your group messages
It’s good practice to call up your friends and inform them about your GupShup group before you add them to your group
Please have a nickname that help receiver of your group messages identify you
Do not post abusive or offensive content
Please do not post at inappropriate hours; before 7am or after 10pm
Please do not send invites to a random collection of phone numbers
Be mindful of others privacy concerns

The SMS GupShup mobile website brings the best mobile friendly features to your phone. It allows you to

Create your own groups and invite people to join the groups. Now you can create multiple groups on SMS GupShup, using the mobile website and the main website
Send FREE SMS-es to your friends using the personal messages feature
Search, browse and read through the content on various groups
Join your favorite groups and share them with friends
Manage your groups, your profile and your SMS GupShup account

Create an account at SMS GupShup:

For creating an account, visit www.SMSGupShup.com, click on “explore” option and get home page. Click on “Get Started” option and get the page of creating account. An account can be created in 4 steps such as account details, verify mobile, set profile, and create group.

In account details step, Enter phone number, email address, password, confirm password, fill the captcha, and accept terms and conditions, then click on “join an account” option. In verify mobile step, get another page, enter the code and click on “verify” option. In set profile step, enter name, nick-name, date of birth, and location. In create group step, enter group name, image, group category, add your own tags, description, greeting massages, and default group, then click on “save” option.

After creating an account, Browse all groups on GupShup by clicking on Groups in the top navigation bar. Click on Join button to join a group and receive group messages on your mobile. To join a group from your mobile phone by SMS, send JOIN followed by the group name to 567678 from your mobile.

How to make a group private on GupShup website?

To make a group private on GupShup website, users have to follow below steps after logging in:

Click on their group name in left navigation bar of My GupShup
Click on Settings on the group page
Select the radio button Private in the Privacy Settings section of Mobile tab in group settings

By sending PRIVATE by SMS to 567678, users can also change their group name from their mobile phone registered on GupShup.

Source: http://www.smsgupshup.com