Americans send over 4 billion text messages per day on average. Text messaging is more popular than phone calls, with Americans sending and receiving twice as many texts per month. Usage of text messaging is highest among teens and young adults aged 18-34, with over 68% of that age group using the service in 2007. Texting usage has continued to grow across all age groups since then.

1. MOBILE
TEXT
MESSAGE
USAGE
IN USA
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Americans send 4.1 billion SMS
text messages every day.
BILLION4.1 EVERY DAY
On average, Americans send
and receive twice as many text
messages as phone calls per
month.
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68% of people 18-34 use
text messaging (76% of
people 18-24 and 50%
overall), note the 2007
date of the study.
18-3468%
18-2476%
Overall50%
In 2008, teens were by far the largest users of texting, coming
in at 85%. In 2009, this continued to be true with teens at 94%
and 20-30 at 87%, but usage also increased for older age
groups. Among those in their 40s, usage jumped from 56% to
64%, and for those in their 50s it jumped from 38% to 46%.
2008
Users of texting
2009
Users of texting
60% of U.S. mobile phone
users now use SMS,
compared to 54% in a
survey conducted last year.
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60%
USE SMS
A new online survey of mobile users conducted in
January, 2008 by Amplitude Research has found the
following features and considerations to be most
important among cell phone buyers:
Text Messaging73%
Camera67%
Internet61% @
Music Features34%
Video33%
Roughly two-thirds of Hispanics
used text messaging services in
the last 30 days, about one-
fourth utilized mobile Internet,
and the same percentage sent
an email in the past month.
Text Messaging
1/3
Internet & Email
1/4
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SOURCE:
http://www.mosio.com/mobileanswers/facts-and-figures-mobile-text-message-usage-in-the-u-s-its-massive/