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 Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 11:17 am Post subject: Meet new people in New Zealand With SMS text messaging |
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I use text messaging to meet new people all over the world. I came across the article and thought it may be of interest to travelers or people just wanting to meet people in other areas of the world. Because of the text messaging clubs I use at SMS.ac, I am getting a chance to communicate with new friends in sms clubs, particularly those that have similar interests that I do. My circle of friends is growing and at the same time, the world is getting a lot smaller-- and that’s nice.
User-Created Mobile Messaging Clubs on SMS.ac Exceed 150,000 Milestone
Thursday October 7, 6:30 am ET
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 7, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- Millions of mobile phone users around the world are congregating to use their handsets with the objective of exchanging thoughts on subjects ranging from music, romance, politics...even the Universal Jedi Religion (for you Star Wars fans). This global mobile audience is meeting at a wireless junction called SMS.ac, where the world's largest community of mobile phone users is averaging approximately 1 million people that join its smsClubs each month in 2004 (http://www.sms.ac/clubs)
To date, more than 150,000 member-created smsClubs have been created at SMS.ac and hundreds of the smsClubs have thousands of people in them. Think of smsClubs as a wireless meeting place, where people that share common interests interact anywhere and at any hour, using their mobile devices. SMS.ac products are accessible via handsets and also through the company's consumer web site: http://www.sms.ac.
Michael Pousti, SMS.ac's chairman and chief executive officer, is no stranger to building communities. As CEO and founder of CollegeClub.com, he built what became the most widely used ``youth'' product on the Internet. At the time of its sale in 2000, Pousti and CollegeClub.com were generating in excess of five billion text messages per year amongst college students, mostly through email and instant messaging.
``It became obvious that it wasn't content that attracted and retained users to our products, it was community and communication,'' said Pousti. ``The next step was to rip a page from what we learned in the online environment and then make it relevant to billions of mobile phone users around the world.
``Products like smsClubs (http://www.sms.ac/clubs) and smsFlirt (http://www.sms.ac/flirt) provide mobile phone users with a forum for what they like to do-- communicate with people that share their interests,'' continued Pousti. ``And we understand that no one wants to be tethered to a PC in order to interact. The breadth of subject matter found in smsClubs is indicative of the wide appeal of mobile communications across typical demographic boundaries. 40 percent of our users are now over the age of 25.''
If you're a fan of Mel Gibson movies, then the ``I love Mel Gibson'' smsClub (1,181 members) is for you. On the musical side, if you are in Romania and can't get enough of Vanilla Ice, check out the ``Fans of Vanilla-Ice'' club. With 17,880 members, that's a lot of Romanians sending SMS (text messages) about Ice Ice, Baby.
Recently, an smsClub (http://www.sms.ac/clubs), called the ``Alibi and Excuse Club,'' was featured on the front page of the New York Times, on The Today Show and through various international news outlets.
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