q: How many texts could they send on a particular day? a: 217,000 q: Did one get a cheap bill? a: No q: how much was it? a: $ 26,000 q: did it arrive in an envelope? a: no q: what did it arrive in? a: a box q: which guy got this bill? a: Andes q: where are these friends from? a: Pennsylvania q: what month did they try to break the record? a: March q: did they succeed? a: Did by Guinness World Records q: how many did they send? a: 217,000 q: what was the previous record? a: 182,000 q: what year was that done in? a: 2005 q: by what person? a: Deepak Sharma q: from what country? a: India q: for how long have these friends been texting each other? a: most of March q: was one of the wives happy with them doing this? a: No q: how fast did she get sick of this? a: Immediately q: were their messages always long ones? a: No q: what is an example of one? a: LOL q: were they always unique messages? c: Their thumbs sure must be sore. Two central prefix = st1 /Pennsylvaniafriends spent most of March in a text - messaging record attempt, exchanging a thumbs-flying total of 217,000. For one of the two, that meant an inches-thick itemized bill for $ 26,000. Nick Andes, 29, and Doug Klinger, 30, were relying on their unlimited text messaging plans to get them through the escapade , so Andes didn't expect such a big bill. " It came in a box that cost $ 27.55 to send to me." he said. He said he "panicked" and called T-Mobile, which said it would investigate the charges. The two Lancaster-area residents have been practically non-stop texters for about a decade since they attended Berks Technical Institute together. That led Andes to searching for the largest monthly text message total he could find posted online: 182,000 sent in 2005 by Deepak Sharma in India. Andes and Klinger were able to set up their phones to send multiple messages. During a February test run they found they could send 6,000 or 7,000 messages on some days, prompting the March messaging marathon. " Most were either short phrases or one word, 'LOL' or 'Hello', things like that , with tons and tons of repeats," said Andes, reached by phone. Andes sent more than 140,000 messages, and Klinger sent more than 70,000 to end the month with a total of just over 217,000, he said. A spokesman for Guinness World Records didn't immediately return messages asking whether it would be certified as a record. April came as a relief to Andes' wife , Julie, who had found his phone tied up with texting when she tried to call him on lunch breaks. " She was tired of it the first few days into it, "Andes said.
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