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unusual facts about text messages



Dishfire

Dishfire (stylised DISHFIRE) is a covert global surveillance collection system and database run by the United States of America's National Security Agency (NSA) and the United Kingdom's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) that collects hundreds of millions of text messages on a daily basis from around the world.

Murder conviction without a body

In the 2001 murder of Danielle Jones, the required circumstantial evidence was provided by forensic analysis of text messages sent by the accused, her uncle Stuart Campbell, who was convicted of her murder in December 2002.

SwiftKey

a cloud-based personalization service which analyzes how the user types in Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, and text messages to predict phrases in the user's style


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2ergo

On 18 September 2009, 2ergo were fined £80,000 by PhonepayPlus, regulator for premium rate phone-paid services, for sending misleading unsolicited marketing text messages.

DWAL

Samuel "DJ Sam" Barral (rest of 4th District)- Just like Kakang Bising, DJ Sam started as a relay listener of events in the 4th district, specifically Rosario, Batangas, giving the current events through text messages.

Jenn Sterger

In October 2010, reports surfaced on the website Deadspin that NFL quarterback Brett Favre was alleged to have sent Sterger several suggestive text messages, voicemails asking her to come to his hotel room, and explicit photos of himself while he was the quarterback for the New York Jets and she was a sideline reporter for the Jets (these events were said to have happened during the 2008 football season).

Mobile harassment

The popular show Gossip Girlcontains many episodes with storylines that revolve around gossipy, misinterpreted or questionable text messages.

Mobile phones on aircraft

As of mid April 2007 Qantas teamed up with Panasonic Avionics Corporation and AeroMobile to commence a three-month trial that would "enable customers to send and receive e-mails, access the Internet and send and receive text messages from their own mobile phone".

Steins;Gate: Fuka Ryōiki no Déjà vu

After going through a painstaking journey across multiple 'World Lines' due to the invention of 'D-Mail', text messages that can be sent to the past, Rintarō Okabe has assumedly landed in the "Steins Gate" World Line, in which he was able to prevent the deaths of both Mayuri Shiina and Kurisu Makise, as well as prevent a future ruled by SERN due to the invention of a time machine no longer exists.

Suicide among LGBT youth

Cyber bullying involves abusive text messages or messages of the same nature on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media networks.

The Best Burger in New York

Regis Philbin is hosting a show called "Million Dollar Heads or Tails" a parody of Million Dollar Password, when Barney text messages him about finding the burger place.

TigerText

Co-Founder Jeffrey Evans has stated that he and his partners picked the iPhone app's name before the scandal that was related to Tiger Woods' alleged text messages to a mistress.