Bharti Airtel, a leading telecom service providers has announced that it would offer free access to  micro-blogging site Twitter to all  its mobile subscribers in India till March 1, 2012.

"This limited period Twitter offer by Airtel is a first-of-its-kind initiative in India which allows customers to enjoy free access to Twitter through Web browsers and enjoy posting tweets, keeping up with news and what''s happening in the world," the company said in a statement.

The customers can subscribe to SMS updates of specific Twitter users through short code 53000 on their mobile phones as well.