<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a53aaa75-0e3d-412a-bdd0-509e9f97b719/F36079D7-EC8A-4098-8C36-E32A2A95609B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.mediapost.com/research_brief/?p=1731" href="http://blogs.mediapost.com/research_brief/?p=1731" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.mediapost.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.mediapost.com/research_brief/?p=1731"><P>Globally, about two thirds of mobile phone users are active users of SMS text messaging, which means roughly 1.8 billion people are actively texting today, says the author </p> <UL> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Globally, there are twice as many active users of SMS as are active users of email.</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">In the U.S., roughly 300 billion text messages were sent in 2007.</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">SMS is typically read within an average of 15 minutes after receipt and responded to within 60 minutes. </LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">While 65% of e-mail is spam, less than 10% of SMS is spam. </LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">19% of text messagers say they use text messaging as a means of communication between themselves and colleagues</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">62% say they use text messaging to communicate with friends </LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">55% say they use it to communicate with their significant others</LI></UL></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F36079D7-EC8A-4098-8C36-E32A2A95609B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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