text messaging

noun

1. communication by means of text messages sent from mobile phones

Example Sentences

Young people harnessing technology for mass movements is nothing new – in the early 2000s text messaging propelled the second People's Power Revolution in the Philippines, while the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street in the 2010s relied heavily on Twitter.

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"If the tariffs weren't in place, it would be like taking a little bit of bitter medicine," says Alex Beller, board member of the Ecommerce Innovation Alliance, a business lobby group and a co-founder of Postscript, which works with thousands of smaller businesses on text messaging marketing.

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These involved two separate apps—one for end-to-end encrypted voice calling, the other for end-to-end encrypted text messaging—that were combined into one service called Signal and released in 2014, making history as the first free nonprofit all-in-one encrypted communications system.

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Last year, Sapo accused Iranian intelligence of hacking into a text messaging service to send 15,000 messages to Swedes, after several Quran burnings.

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He had been given his first mobile phone for his 18th birthday and had just discovered text messaging.

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