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  1. Mar 19, 2024 · 6 billion+ SMS messages are sent daily in the United States, with 97% of adults owning a compatible mobile device. [8] The U.S. actually trails much of the world in using feature-rich internet-based messaging apps regularly.

  2. For evidence of this, look no further than these text message statistics: 1. The vast majority (97%) of Americans have a mobile phone, 85% of which are smartphones. Additionally, over half of the global population (54%) owns a smartphone.

  3. In 2021, mobile users in the United States sent roughly 2 trillion SMS or MMS messages. Following a sharp drop off in 2012, the number of SMS and MMS messages sent in the U.S. has...

  4. Dec 3, 2022 · Study reveals the enduring popularity of the text message. Neil Murphy. December 02, 2022. Text messages still play a big role in the daily lives of many, with almost one in three people sending and receiving SMS messages every day — 30 years after the first text was sent.

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  5. Sep 19, 2011 · Some 83% of American adults own cell phones and three-quarters of them (73%) send and receive text messages. The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project asked those texters in a survey how they prefer to be contacted on their cell phone and 31% said they preferred texts to talking on the phone, while 53% said they preferred a ...

  6. In the United States, text messaging is very popular; as reported by CTIA in December 2009, the 286 million US subscribers sent 152.7 billion text messages per month, for an average of 534 messages per subscriber per month. [62]

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  8. Dec 12, 2023 · As of November 2021, it was found that the most popular online activity in the United States was text or instant messaging - overall, 92.3 percent of online users in the country used messaging...