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It takes the average person 90 minutes to respond to email, but only 90 seconds to respond to a text message
Did you know that 8 trillion text messages are sent every day worldwide? Breaking it down, that comes out to 15.2 million text messages sent per minute. Our research team has done a deep dive and pulled together some interesting text messaging facts that we think you'll find thought-provoking.
Our specially designed text message clocks below are updated in real time and illustrate the staggering the number of texts that are sent each day, month and year.
Text messages sent this day
Text messages sent this month
Text messages sent this year
times per day
Average American checks their phone 46 times per day
hours a week
The average adult spends a total of 23 hours a week texting
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Text messages are read on average in under five seconds
texts per day
The average Millennial exchanges an average of 67 text messages per day
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It takes the average person 90 minutes to respond to email, but only 90 seconds to respond to a text message
20% 98%
Text messages have a 98% open rate, while email has only a 20% open rate
SOURCE: https://onereach.com/blog/45-texting-statistics-that-prove- businesses-need-to-start-taking-sms-seriously/ has all of the individual sources