15 awesome and outrageous facts about text messaging the united states

Texting is the most widely-used and frequently used app on a smartphone, with 97% of Americans using it at least once a day. (Pew Internet)

People worldwide will send 8.3 trillion text messages in just this year alone. That’s almost 23 billion messages per day, or almost 16 million messages per minute. (Portio Research)

Over 6 billion text messages are sent in the U.S. each day. (Forrester)Text messages are read on average in under five seconds. (SlickText)

Over 80% of American adults text, making it the most common cell phone activity. (Pew Internet)

Text messages have a 98% open rate, while email has only a 20% open rate. (Mobile Marketing Watch) Text messaging has a 45% response rate, while email only has a 6% response rate. (Velocify)

Texting takes up 14.1% of cell phone users’ time. (Nielsen) 90% of all text messages are read in under 3 minutes. (Connect Mogul)

Over 75% of phones worldwide (4.5 billion) are text-enabled (DuoCall Communications)  while 96% of smartphone users text. (Acision)

Americans sent 69,000 texts every second (CTIA)

The average adult spends a total of 23 hours a week texting (USA Today)

The average Millennial exchanges an average of 67 text messages per day (Business Insider) On average, Americans exchange twice as many texts as they do calls (Nielsen)

 Only 43% of smartphone owners use their phone to make calls, but over 70% of smartphone users text (CTIA)

There are gender differences in texting in US . In American women text 14% more than men. (Nielsen)

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