Google joins a growing number of companies which offers group chat capabilities through the help of text messages on smartphones with the release of Disco Messenger. The Disco Messenger app, which is available only on the iPhone, was created by Slide, a company Google purchased last August.
The Disco Messenger group texting service is also available on the Web and as expected, Google bought that too.
Signing up is pretty easy, you need to mention your First and Last Name and your US Phone number and you are good to go. You can even connect to Facebook to let friends know and create groups faster!
Sign up and you're assigned a new phone number, and you are invited to go on a SMS rampage, texting bunches of people, irrespective of whether they're on the Disco service or not. But before you sign up one small piece of information for you, Disco uses your iPhone's text message plan, so if you intend to Disco 'til you drop, be sure you have a supportive carrier plan.
Joining the band with the likes of GroupMe, Beluga, Fast Society, Kik, and (too) many more, Disco is a simple service that puts Google in the hottest new trend for app developers. But it's quite unlikely that Disco will make it to Android and even integrate with Google Voice.
