Sometimes the comments are better than the post, educational or in this case, correctional.
Dan Harris of China Law Blog (an award winner, make that top award winner in several blog contests) made me laugh at out and continue chuckling as I went out the door when he responde to my post 5,546 Text Messages Each Second with
"That's nothing. My 17 year old daughter and around ten of her friends can top that."
Turtlewind reminded me that I can't add or read or both with -
"I think that's something of an underestimate. The article says there were 175
billion messages sent in the first 3 months of the year, which works out at almost 22,000 messages per second - around four times the number you said (did you take the 175 billion as an annual figure instead of a quarterly one?)
Even so, that's still not a particularly large number - split all those messages over the 574 million mobile users in China and it's only three-and-a-bit per person per day. China is big."
But, what I want to know is can your daughter, Dan, win $25K text messaging?
And, Turtlewind, what if the 574 million Chinese with mobile phones sent 8,000 messages in a month? How many bits would that be?
Thanks for reading!
Probably not, but the first month she had text messaging, she had about 5,000 messages. After that I got unlimited and stopped counting, but it would not surprise me a bit if she has hit 8,000 in a month. Just tonight, she slipped up and lectured a neighbor girl on how to text while driving. Not kidding.
Posted by: Dan Harris | May 8, 2008 1:06 AM | Permalink to Comment