Text messaging
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Text messaging, or texting, is the act of composing and sending electronic messages, typically consisting of alphabetic and numeric characters, between two or more users of mobile phones, tablet compu
A person recreationally text messaging using WhatsApp
An SMS text message on an iPhone announcing an Amber alert
SMS is used to send "welcome" messages to mobile phones roaming between countries. Here, T-Mobile welcomes a Proximus subscriber to the UK, and Base welcomes an Orange UK customer to Belgium.
This sticker seen in Paris satirizes the popularity of communication in SMS shorthand. In French: "Is that you? / It's me! / Do you love me? / Shut up!".
X (social network)
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X, formerly known as Twitter, is an American microblogging and social networking service owned by SpaceX's artificial intelligence subsidiary SpaceXAI. It is one of the world's largest social media pl
Text messaging
…miniaturized blog, inspired mainly by people's tendency to jot down informal thoughts and post them online. They consist of websites like X (formerly Twitter) and its Chinese equivalent Weibo (微博). As of 2016, 21% of all American adults used Twitter. As of 2017, Weibo had 340 million active users. In the…
A sketch, c. 2006, by Jack Dorsey, envisioning an SMS-based social network
Jack Dorsey, co-founder and former CEO of Twitter at CrunchUp, a TechCrunch event, July 2009
Donald Trump's Twitter post from July 2017
Elon Musk 2015