Oh, the controversy over how to communicate these days. Nick Bilton, columnist for The New York Times started the debate. In his March 10th article, Bilton complained that leaving a voicemail is rude because it takes too much time for the recipient to listen to it. Texts saying “call me” are preferred. He received 542 [...]
We love our textPlusers, and nothing would make us happier than to feature you-- yes you-- online. Just send us your photos, and they could be used by textPlus in our app, in our advertising, on the textPlus Facebook page and or on our Twitter. Team textPlus will choose some of the top images based [...]
Recently, a study from the UK showed that people are more likely to send a text than make a phone call when communicating with friends and family. We here at textPlus love that texting is becoming a primary way to communicate. After all, we text everyday, every hour even. But, what happens at major sporting [...]
Fireworks, parades and BBQs-- oh my! Summer is definitely here and it’s a perfect time to gather your friends and family to celebrate our Independence Day. But, with July 4th falling in the middle of the week and so many other activities going on, how do you gather all your friends together? We have a [...]
If you’re like most Americans and heading on the road this summer, you’re probably thinking about how to make sure your phone bill doesn’t come back with several extra zeros -- especially if traveling internationally. And although we here at textPlus assume most people know there’s options when communicating on their mobile phones and devices [...]
Celebrate our third birthday with us for three weeks and you can win in the process! After all, good things always come in three. Three years of textPlus Three ways to win Three weeks of contests To enter, simply invite three of your friends to textPlus for your chance to win Beats headphones. When you [...]
It’s been just over two weeks since we introduced textPlus for Windows Phone and the feedback so far is... you love it! With textPlus on WP7, you have a completely different way to quickly navigate through textPlus with ease and respond to your friends. Today, we’re excited to launch an updated version with even more [...]
One of our goals at textPlus is to ensure that everyone can be a part of the texting conversation. That’s why we enable you to text anyone worldwide app-to-app. Plus, you can text anyone in the US and Canada - even if they don’t have textPlus - and textPlus works across multiple platforms and devices [...]
textPlus is a finalist in the 2012 About.com Reader’s Choice awards for Best Texting App on the iPhone and iPod. How about ‘em apples? Thanks to all of our awesome customers -- yes, that means you -- for nominating us! Now, we need your support just one more time so that we can win. So, [...]
In today’s modern world, there are many ways to say “I love you” other than in person - whether it’s calling, messaging, a Facebook post or even a tweet. And most certainly, via text. Because we’re interested to know whether or not it’s OK to say “I love you” via text, we went ahead and [...]