If Indian Twitter users were finding their twittering habits a bit heavy on their pockets, if they use their mobile phones to update Twitter on a UK number, may be this new service will bring in a cheer.

Enter Snockles, the Indian copy of Twitter, complete with an Indian number to send updates to. So does it saves the use the cost of sending international SMS, it’s a wait and watch. According to the Snockles Settings page, its says ‘Premium short code rates apply for sending/ receiving Snockles via SMS’. What does the premium rates mean need to be seen. Snockles also has a UK number for UK users. Users in Europe can use this UK number for using Snockles.

So how will Snockles fare? Globally, the micro blogging service is already crowded with Twitter, Jaiku, and Pownce. The Indian Twitter users must have already developed fairly large networks of friends and they are unlikely to change to Snockles just because it is an Indian service.

On the improvement front, Snockles can do with an integration of IM tools i.e. the ability to send updates from Google chat, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, etc. Some other innovative features need to be there as well to crack the global market.

Nothing new for the hard core micro-blogger. But for those who are starting to take interest on the social media scene in India, Snockles might score over the other global players, primarily due to its cost advantage (SMS) factor.

Snockles is from Web Spiders, a Kollkata based Rich Internet Application (RIA) development services and Systems Integration services.

What fun it will be if you can save your important mobile phone SMS online, so that you can have a look at this some time later in the future. It’s possible with Treasuremytext, whose new version is coming up now. This is a new site that allows you to forward any SMS to a UK number and that appears as a text stream on your Treasuremytext profile page. The page is a la web 2.0 style package complete with AJAX and RSS feed. You can set this text stream to private and there you go, an online storage for your SMS.

At the first glance, this service looks very exciting. I checked out the service with a hope that perhaps it will automatically save all SMS I send receive on my mobile phone. But the fact that i have manually forward every SMS is sort of a disappointment. It dawned to me that perhaps I could do the same with micro blogging sites like Twitter, Jaiku, or Pownce.

Another disappointment is that with the free account, you can save only 5 messages in a day. If you need to save more, you need to cough up EUR18 per year. In this age of free services and when companies are giving away gigabytes of storage space free of cost, this comes as a surprise.

One plus point that Treasuremytext has over Twitter and others could be that it can also save your contacts and you can also send SMS from your account page. Well the service has a loyal fan following across the globe and so there must be something worthwhile. Let’s hope the new version is coming up with some great features that we can truly make good use of.

If you are looking for Treasuremytext invites, leave your email on the comments and I will send you one.