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World Record texter sent 566,607 messages in one month
So how many texts do you send and receive each month? No matter how high that figure is, there is no way it can come close to the number of texts that Fred Lidgren sends out and gets in. Lidgren holds the world record with 566,607 text messages sent from his handset during a one month period. That comes out to 18,887 daily or 787 per hour or an amazing 13 texts sent each minute. Those figures point to a lot of group texts sent.

Fred Lidgren's monthly T-Mobile bill

Fred Lidgren's monthly T-Mobile bill

To prove that Mr. Lidgren does have titanium thumbs, take a look at the picture of his T-Mobile bill. Unlike most customers of the nation's fourth largest carrier, his invoice doesn't come in the snail mail in an envelope. Nope. His bill arrives by Priority Mail in the form of a large parcel. We're not sure what Mr. Lidgren does for a living, but we would imagine it has something to do with his world record.

source: PPCGeeks

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1. bbblader posted on 12 Feb 2012, 05:27 5

Mother of Mails

17. maier9900 posted on 12 Feb 2012, 19:26 2

18,800 messages a day, 786 messages per hour and 13 messages per minute. WOOW.

24. quakan posted on 13 Feb 2012, 13:12

I'd hate to be one of his friend and see this d**k head is sending me like 100,000 texts a month out of the 566,607.

2. ledbetterp3 posted on 12 Feb 2012, 05:31 15

That's more than I texted in my lifetime, I think...

13. ledbetterp3 posted on 12 Feb 2012, 14:56 1

Awesome, I said this when I was drunk

21. the_s2 posted on 13 Feb 2012, 02:03 1

Now, is that a fake profile? ^

3. imgod posted on 12 Feb 2012, 05:54 4

that's insane!!

4. Viktor9 posted on 12 Feb 2012, 06:10 14

He's probably texting like my friend.
Message 1: ok,
Message2: I will
Message 2: meet you
Message3: at the
Message4: airport
Message5: :
Message6: )

5. Viktor9 posted on 12 Feb 2012, 06:11

Six messages in about 20 seconds.

6. DIYguy posted on 12 Feb 2012, 06:18 4

I wonder what phone he's using and how often does he have to change his phone because the keyboard fails...

7. Glim12808 posted on 12 Feb 2012, 06:53 2

I think sending text messages to a lot of people will not be a problem if you enroll your contacts into groups. You send only one text to the group and all of them will receive the same text message individually. So in 20 seconds, depending on the number of people you have enrolled in the group, you would have sent so much number of text messages.

What intrigues me though is what job does he do that would entail such a lot of texting in one month... maybe he sends out advertisements, or maybe campaign materials?

8. Glim12808 posted on 12 Feb 2012, 06:58 6 1

Sorry for double posting, but if he is earnest in paying his monthly bills, maybe TMO should give him an MVC Award? You know, the Most Valuable Customer Award?

9. jim3000gt posted on 12 Feb 2012, 09:33 7 4

So much for going green. How many trees a year does this clown waste just for his paper bill. T Mo should charge him for billing and shipping. No wonder they want to keep raising the rates and it only hurts us that hardly use the services. I pay 30 a month for about 100 text on my family plan and he send 1/2 mil for same price.

15. nb2six posted on 12 Feb 2012, 16:51 3 1

you do pay 1.99 a month for paper billing.

16. jim3000gt posted on 12 Feb 2012, 18:01 3

Bet it cost way more then that to send his bill.

20. Glim12808 posted on 12 Feb 2012, 23:25

I'm sure TMO makes money from this Lidgren guy otherwise all that texting would already have been throttled by the carrier. Also, I'm sure this guy is not sending out that much text messages for the fun of it. I'm sure he earns money from it all.

So it's a win-win situation for TMO and this Mr. Lidgren.

But one of the posts that makes sense is the suggestion that he be enrolled in paperless billing.

10. SleepingOz posted on 12 Feb 2012, 11:20 2

SMS BOMBER!

11. ghost__uwi posted on 12 Feb 2012, 12:44 3

how does he eat ... sleep ? Bathe ? work ?

12. Bluesky02 posted on 12 Feb 2012, 12:53 1

I don't even send that amount of SMS per year

14. tluv00 posted on 12 Feb 2012, 16:28 4

Can't this guy enroll in paperless billing so there isn't such a waste of paper? He actually seems like a douche bag.

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