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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.