Text Messaging by the Numbers

by Ken Vernon on 11 May 2010

52: Percentage of Americans who send text messages.

76.4: Percentage of US cell phone subscribers use text messaging.

72: Percentage of all teens who are text-messagers.
51: Percentage of all teens who were text-messagers in 2006.

2/3: Fraction of teen texters who say they are more likely to use their cell phones to text their friends than talk to them to them by cell phone.

50: Percentage of teens send 50 or more text messages per day.

80: Average number of texts teen girls send per day.
30: Average number of texts teen boys send per day.

40: Percentage of women who describe themselves as ‘mainly texter’.
30: Percentage of men who describe themselves as ‘mainly texter’.

42: Percentage of 18-34 year olds with cell phones who said they were interested in receiving alerts on their cell phones from places they frequent.
33: Percentage of 35-44 year olds with cell phones who said they were interested in receiving alerts on their cell phones from places they frequent.

26: Percentage of all consumers who use text messaging who say they have opted in to receive text message marketing messages.

25: Percentage of women who engage in TV voting via text.
14: Percentage of men who engage in TV voting via text.

15: Percentage of teens who say they have received a sexually suggestive nude or nearly nude image of someone they know by text.

26: Percentage of U.S. teens ages 16-17 who admit to have texted while driving.

More than 822 billion: Number of text messages sent and received on carriers networks during the last half of 2009 (That’s almost 5 billion per day).

Around 9.3 Billion: Number of MMS (multi-media messages) messages reported for the last half of 2008.
More than 24.2 Billion: The number of MMS messages reported for the last half of 2009.

80: Percentage of all ages who said they thought they would get a quicker response from a text than from an email or voicemail.

22: Percentage of U.S. cell phone owners who donated to Haiti earthquake relief who did so via text message.

Sources:

http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1572/teens-cell-phones-text-messages

http://www.qwasi.com/news/tag/text-message-statistics

http://www.carolflammer.com/2010/01/cell-phones-text-messaging-marketing-to-consumers/

http://mmaglobal.com/news/text-messaging-provides-us-consumers-convenient-secure-immediate-way-help-haitian-earthquake-vi

http://www.goomzee.com/products-mobile-market.htm

http://business-solutions.tmcnet.com/topics/email-marketing/articles/82201-twenty-six-percent-text-message-users-have-opted.htm

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Gender, Mobile and Social by the Numbers

by Ken Vernon on 3 May 2010

300 million: The number of fewer female mobile subscribers worldwide than men.

$13 Billion: The increase in worldwide telecommunications revenue that would happen if telecommunications providers closed the gender gap in mobile phone penetration.

93: The percentage of women worldwide  who report feeling safer because of their mobile phone.

41: The percentage of women worldwide who report having increased income and professional opportunities once they own a phone.

$94: The average cellular bill for working moms.
$78: The average cellular bill for all cell phone users.

42: The percentage more likely working moms are than the average cellular user to download content to their phone.

55: The percentage of mobile social network usage that is female.
45: The percentage of mobile social network usage that is male.

42:The percentage of women who post photos on Facebook.
35:The percentage of men who post photos on Facebook.

40: The percentage of teenage girls who say they talk to friends on their mobile phones several times a day.
26: The percentage of teenage boys who say they talk to friends on their mobile phones several times a day.

19: The number of minutes boys between 8-18 years old spend on social networking sites in a typical day.
25: The number of minutes girls between 8-18 years old spend on social networking sites in a typical day.

25: The number of minutes boys between 8-18 years old spend playing games on the computer in a typical day.
8: The number of minutes girls between 8-18 years old spend playing games on the computer in a typical day.

77: The percentage of women who said that technology is NOT a “guy thing”.

In some important ways, we’re not very different.

47: The percentage of mobile web users who are women.
53: The percentage of mobile web users who are men.

77: The percentage of Millennial women who have created a social networking profile.
72: The percentage of Millennial men who have created a social networking profile.

57:The percentage of U.S. Facebook users who are female.
43:The percentage of U.S. Facebook users who are male.

14:The percentage of female facebook users who donated to Haiti earthquake relief via text message.
13:The percentage of male facebook users who donated to Haiti earthquake relief via text message.

57:The percentage of U.S. men who access the internet wirelessly.
52:The percentage of U.S. women who access the internet wirelessly.

70: The percentage of U.S. male teens who have a cell phone.
72: The percentage of U.S. female teens who have a cell phone.

50:The percentage of men who are “very” interested in the iPad as of January 2010.
50:The percentage of women who are “very” interested in the iPad as of January 2010.

Sources:

http://www.gsmworld.com/newsroom/press-releases/2010/4644.htm
http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/mobile-web-up-34-percent-july-09/
http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/consumer/working-moms-above-average-mobile-users-and-spenders/
http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/survey-global-facebook-users-generous-texters-for-haiti-but-unprepared-themselves/
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007309
http://www.briansolis.com/2010/04/in-mobile-women-rule-social-networking/
http://www.pewinternet.org/%7E/media/Files/Reports/2010/PIP-Teens-and-Mobile-2010.pdf (pdf link)
http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Social-Media-and-Young-Adults/Part-2/5-Wireless.aspx?r=1
http://pewsocialtrends.org/assets/pdf/millennials-confident-connected-open-to-change.pdf (pdf link)
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1315/teens-use-of-cell-phones
http://www.srgnet.com/us/
http://www.gearlog.com/2009/06/what_women_want_from_their_tec.php

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Minority Mobile and Social Media Use by the Numbers

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13 hours: The average amount of time spent consuming any kind of media by Black and Hispanic Americans 8- to 18-years-old.
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94: Percentage of Millennials who have a cell phone.
31: Percentage of 8- to 10-year olds who have a cell phone.
66: Percentage of Black Millennials who connect to the internet wirelessly.
47: Percentage of Hispanic Millennials who connect to the internet wirelessly.
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Location
Location
Location.

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25 million: Users who accessed Facebook via a mobile browser in January 2010.
347: Percent increase of mobile Twitter users in 2009.
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