You know who had a good New Years Eve? Whoever at O2 is responsible for counting the money they make from text messages.
The mobile carrier (and current Millenium Dome landlord) has announced that on O2 alone, over 166 MILLION texts were sent to celebrate the start of 2009. Actually, some of them may have been sent for other reasons – unless O2 are secretly monitoring the contents of our texts they can’t possibly know if were were celebrating or not and several may have denounced the coming of 2009 entirely. There is just no way for us to be sure - but all the same, that’s a pretty flippin’ huge number of messages flying through the ether.
The messages were counted between 7:30 AM on the 31st and the same time on the 1st of January and averaged out to around 1900 messages per second.
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