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About how many text messages were sent worldwide in 2021?

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about 534

In 2009, the average U.S. texter sent about how many texts per month?

U.S. subscribers sent 152.7 billion texts in a single month of 2009, averaging 534 messages per subscriber.

Source: Wikipedia, Text messaging (2009) en.wikipedia.org

72%

In 2010, about what share of U.S. adult cellphone users sent or received text messages?

By 2010, 72% of American adult cellphone owners were texting, a habit that had become mainstream across age groups.

Source: Wikipedia, Text messaging (2010) en.wikipedia.org

over 1 trillion

By 2005, how many text messages had been sent worldwide that year?

Global texting had already crossed the trillion-message mark for a single year by 2005, years before smartphones went mainstream.

Source: Wikipedia, Text messaging (2005) en.wikipedia.org

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