ABI research says 7 TRILLION text messages are going to be sent in 2011 from 4.8 billion mobile phones.

That's a huge number, but it pales in comparison to email. At the start of this year analytics firm Pingdom reported 1.4 billion email users sent 90 trillion emails in 2009.

[Via: Mobile Marketer]

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