By Ashley Randazzo
After a lazy Saturday of sitting around on the instant messenger, I heard a noise from my desk as if something was drilling into it. Of course, it was my cell phone vibrating repeatedly until I decided to stop the drilling. I received a text message from a gentleman I am seeing that [...]
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At the Text Message Blog, we vowed to report on everything that has to do with text messaging. Therefore, we feel obligated to report on the Text Message Bra–perhaps the greatest innovation in ladies undergarments since the WonderBra.
Now, wouldn’t it be neat to add Text Message Alerts like sports score alerts and have it sent [...]
Americans sure do love their cell phones. They love to talk on the phone, send a lot of text messages, subscribe to weather alerts via text message.
1. Cingular 58.7 million subscribers
2. Verizon 56.7
3. Sprint/Nextel 45.2
4. T-Mobile 24.1
5. Alltel 11.1
6. US Cellular 5.7
7. Virgin Mobile 3.0
8. Boost 2.2
9. Cricket/Leap 1.9
10. Dobson/Cellular One 1.5
11. SunCom 1.0
12. Centennial [...]
Dumped by a text message? Kevin Federline has apparently joined the group of spurned lovers who can say that they’ve now been dumped by, of all things, a text message!
After two years of marriage, and two children, Britney Spears has filed for divorce from Kevin Federline, siting irreconcilable differences.
While Federline was filming his reality TV [...]
Industry insiders at the recent Mobile Content World fear that the growth of the Premium SMS industry in the United States is being hampered by the carriers taking too much share of the revenue, according to an article in Cellular News. Mobile operators currently take 40-50% of the cost of the premium SMS, thus leaving [...]
Approximately 88 million Americans send text messages frequently and 46 million have downloaded a ringtone, according to Reuters. 65 billion (that’s with a “b”) text messages were sent in the USA during the first half of 2006–that’s double what it was last year!
Some CD’s are including a short code for buyers to also purchase a [...]
XMOR-FM radio in California recently ran a contest that endouraged local high schools to send text messages to the radio station with the keyword “Diddy” in it. Chula Vista High School won the contest by sending in over 34,000 text messages. In total, XMOR received more than 170,000 entries via text message. This is just [...]
According to a study by M:Metrics, 7.1% of Americans have responded to a short code contained within an advertisement. Of these, 4.5% responded to a television short code advertisement, no doubt from popular shows that use text messaging such as Deal or No Deal, Play2Win, or Playmania. 1.1% have responded to a radio text message [...]
In a recent study by eMarketer, a sizeable number of people are responding to text message advertising. This is normally done through the use of short codes contained within the advertising.
Spain tops the list with 29% of its citizens having responded to a short code placed in an advertisement. The UK was second with 18.5% [...]
