Text Message Statistics

ABC News report on cell phone use by Americans, including speaking minutes per month and text messages per month.

A British woman has set the world record for fast text messaging.
Melissa Thompson, 27, wrote “the razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human”, in 25.94 seconds.  Try doing that while driving (just kidding).
The official Guinness World Record is [...]

In 2003, residents of the Philippines sent the most text messages per cell phone user, 195.  In the United States, the average cell phone user sent 13 text messages.
Fast forward to 2009.  In the Philippines, the average cell phone user sent 600 text messages per month and in the United States, it is 420.

Mobile media is certainly catching on when it comes to advertising agencies and their use of it.
According to a the Advertiser Intelligence Report, nearly half (46%) of the marketers and agency media buyers surveyed are currently incorporating mobile media into their advertising plans.
62% of those surveyed expect to increase their spending on mobile in the [...]

Mobile marketing is becoming the most efficient way to connect to customers and promote products. Bar and nightclub businesses have wisely chosen to employ text message marketing as statistics show that the leading text message demographic is 21-30 years old which happens to be the same target audience for nightclubs [...]

Thanks to text message marketing, searching for an apartment has become an efficient and hassle-free experience for the buyer, the agent, and the apartment complex manager. Text message marketing in rental properties is a remarkably simple process for all parties involved. The process begins when the interested buyer sends a keyword (e.g. “Brookwood”) in a [...]

We’ve all seen it.  Teens glued to their cell phones sending text messages…to the kid on the other side of the room.
But, just how much do teens text?
Nielsen analyzed over 40,000 mobile phone bills of USA teens to determine their texting habits.  The research firm found that American teens send an average of 10 text [...]

New evidence from the Mobile Data Association shows the United Kingdom’s ever increasing appetite for
 text messages.
In 2009, Brits sent 96.8 billion text messages and over 600 million picture messages.  That comes out to an average of 265 million text messages per day in the UK.
Christmas Day was the biggest day of the year for picture [...]

Morgan Freeman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Tim McGraw, Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep and Reese Witherspoon join the Ad Council and American Red Cross to launch this public service announcement to Support Victims of the Earthquake in Haiti.
Americans have poured over $30 million into a text message donation program for the victims of the Haiti earthquake.  It is, by far, [...]

Last week, both the House and the Senate voted to unanimously approve legislation that will allow taxpayers to claim a deduction on their 2009 income tax returns for contributions to earthquake relief victims in Haiti,
even though those donations occurred in 2010.
Tax payers have until February 28, 2010 to qualify for the tax relief for donations [...]