<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/8637803f-c261-4ed4-abfb-3c6500266e64/F467ED7F-732E-41BA-A003-FCEDC6CCB934/" 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://www.marketingcharts.com/uncategorized/texters-young-culturally-diverse-online-spenders-6944/scarborough-top-online-markets-texters-dma-2008jpg/" href="http://www.marketingcharts.com/uncategorized/texters-young-culturally-diverse-online-spenders-6944/scarborough-top-online-markets-texters-dma-2008jpg/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.marketingcharts.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.marketingcharts.com/uncategorized/texters-young-culturally-diverse-online-spenders-6944/scarborough-top-online-markets-texters-dma-2008jpg/"><H2><A rev="attachment" href="http://www.marketingcharts.com/uncategorized/texters-young-culturally-diverse-online-spenders-6944/">Texters Young, Culturally Diverse, Online Spenders</A></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.marketingcharts.com/uncategorized/texters-young-culturally-diverse-online-spenders-6944/scarborough-top-online-markets-texters-dma-2008jpg/"><P>Adults in the US who use the text-messaging feature on their cell phone are 49% more likely than the average American to be between age 18-24, 14% more likely to be Hispanic and 24% more likely to be African American, <A href="http://www.scarborough.com/press_releases/Text%20Messaging%20FINAL%2011.24.08.pdf">according to</A> (pdf) a survey from <A href="http://www.scarborough.com">Scarborough Research</A>. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.marketingcharts.com/uncategorized/texters-young-culturally-diverse-online-spenders-6944/scarborough-top-online-markets-texters-dma-2008jpg/"><P>The study also found that El Paso, Texas is the top US city for text messaging, with 57% of all adult cell-phone subscribers (age 18+) there reporting they use the text-messaging feature on their cell phone, compared with 48% of adult subscribers nationally.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.marketingcharts.com/uncategorized/texters-young-culturally-diverse-online-spenders-6944/scarborough-top-online-markets-texters-dma-2008jpg/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.marketingcharts.com/img/B09937C6-4C7D-4BC3-AE93-3E4F76985162" alt="scarborough-top-online-markets-texters-dma-2008.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.marketingcharts.com/uncategorized/texters-young-culturally-diverse-online-spenders-6944/scarborough-top-online-markets-texters-dma-2008jpg/"><P>Other leading markets for text messaging include Salt Lake City, Dallas and Memphis, Tenn., where 55% percent of cell subscribers use text-messaging.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.marketingcharts.com/uncategorized/texters-young-culturally-diverse-online-spenders-6944/scarborough-top-online-markets-texters-dma-2008jpg/"><P>Fort Myers, Fla., Charleston, W.Va., and Grand Rapids, Mich. are the local markets least likely to text message. 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