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Internet phone companies call on Twitter and Facebook

Source: Guardian Unlimited: Technology

Sep 22, 2009

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Voice over IP companies are working hard to make phone calls available on social platforms

From tomorrow, Twitter users will be able to make direct phone calls to each other for the first time. Well, at least if they live in the US. But Jajah.com, an internet telephony company, that allows you to make voice over IP calls using your landline or cell phone, might want to bring the service to the UK as fast as it can. Twitter is not only at its most successful in Europe here, but even more popular more than in the US.

This is how it works: To make a call you send a tweet with "@call @username" in it, where the 'username' is the twitter name of the person you want to call. That will initiate a free two-minute call, which Jajah.com says is the equivalent of a tweet. The Twitter users need to follow each other and both be Jajah users as well, although their phone number won't be revealed.

The announcement is the second this week to show a voice over IP company dipping a foot into the live stream of the social media sites.

A few days earlier Vivox, a Boston-based com

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