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Summer's Hot Texting App, textPlus, Goes Back to School Helping College Students Stay Better Connected
(Market Wire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) MARINA DEL REY, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 09/29/09 --
The beginning of the school season is
here and it's time for students to start hitting the books and getting back
into the swing of their campus life. Whether in a fraternity/sorority, on
an intramural sports team, in a study group or part of a campus club, a new
application for iPhone and iPod touch, called textPlus, helps college kids
stay better connected with their important groups of friends and family
using a convenient way to keep in touch: group conversation text messaging.
With over 2 million downloads since its launch, textPlus is proving to be
extremely popular with college students. Studies show this audience prefers
texting instead of calling and textPlus by GOGII is a new way for them to
interact with their friends in the style they like most. Free to download
and use, textPlus offers unlimited text messaging and instant group
conversations that can quickly keep college students up-to-date on
important information from their social and academic networking circles.
With textPlus, it's easy to organize plans with several friends at the same
time, introduce people to each other or just carry on a group conversation
-- all in text for free.
textPlus is easy for students to use and brings similar group messaging
features to mobile devices previously found only on laptops and computers.
Once a text is sent to the members of a group, the message becomes a full
group conversation. All responses are "reply all" and viewable in a chat
room-like format so the entire group sees every message sent as if it were
a face-to-face live conversation. Because textPlus works with any mobile
phone that has regular texting capabilities, students don't need to be
textPlus users or download anything to join in their groups' conversations.
To ensure important information and updates are never missed, textPlus also
sends alert notifications so group members know when a new message has
arrived. Messages sent via textPlus on the iPhone or iPod touch are
unlimited & free for the owner of the app, with messaging costs sponsored
by GOGII and advertisers.
"Campus life is all about students connecting with each other, sharing
conversations and working together to learn new information," said Scott
Lahman, CEO and co-founder, GOGII. "With the addition of group
conversations, textPlus makes texting more beneficial as a communications
tool for any campus group. No longer limited by one-to-one texting or tied
to a computer for group chats, students can use their mobile devices to
have text-based conversations that include everyone in their important
social groups instantly."
Since its launch on June 1, 2009, textPlus has become one of the most
popular text messaging applications for iPhone and iPod touch. Over 2
million people have downloaded textPlus and approximately 7.2 million users
have experienced messages sent or received from the application. In the US,
over 120 million messages have been sent using textPlus and currently, on
average, over 1.8 million text messages are sent using the application each
day. Since launch, the amount of total minutes used with textPlus is 470
million -- equivalent to over 890 years of use. While only the top 5% of
applications in the Apple App Store reach 100,000 unique monthly visitors,
textPlus exceeded that mark by over 7 times in its second month of release.
Availability
The textPlus application is available for free from Apple's App Store on
iPhone and iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore/. Standard text message
rates apply only when using optional notifications.
About textPlus
textPlus leverages GOGII's innovative messaging platform to bring real text
to the iPod touch and free group texting to the iPod touch and the iPhone.
textPlus enables seamless interaction between textPlus users and their
friends using regular text messaging (SMS). For more information, please
visit www.GOGII.com,
www.textPlus.GOGII.com or text GOGII to 60611.
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