text messaging
noun
: the sending of short text messages electronically especially from one cell phone to another
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Young gave Bo Lillis his phone number, and the two began text messaging.
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Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
Cal Fire also offers a program with text messaging about current wildfire incidents within 20 miles of the participant.
—Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Jan. 2025
Smishing, specifically, is done through text messaging.
—Marley Malenfant, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2024
Republished on December 9 with a new FBI warning into encrypted messaging and an explanation as to why RCS is not secure between iPhone and Android, addressing user confusion after the recent text messaging warnings.
—Zak Doffman, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
Cal Fire also offers a program with text messaging about current wildfire incidents within 20 miles of the participant.
—Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Jan. 2025
Smishing, specifically, is done through text messaging.
—Marley Malenfant, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2024
Republished on December 9 with a new FBI warning into encrypted messaging and an explanation as to why RCS is not secure between iPhone and Android, addressing user confusion after the recent text messaging warnings.
—Zak Doffman, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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“Text messaging.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/text%20messaging. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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