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://www.goomzee.com/products-mobile-market.htm
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GREAT stats on texting! Thanks for including some from my site as well
Thanks Carol. It’s pretty obvious that we are seeing game-changing convergence and transition in the ways we all communicate. Knowing your customer and what they actually do with technology is more important than ever.
very informational mate!
i’m so proud to be a teenager
Thanks for sharing this information because text messaging information is very important world wide. They are universal and every person has a right to learn this facts.
This demographic analysis of text messaging shows that there is great chance to capture the attention of teenagers for any newly born product , service or application which can entertain them by sending descriptive text messages
Great stats, this demographic analysis is pretty great! Texting is a must for teens, I’m so lucky I got my kid a prepaid cellphone. Can you imagine that bill with this numbers!? Thank goodness it’s a Tracfone and he can text all he wants while his prepaid card lasts!