Publishers See Danger in Text Messaging

Posted on May 8, 2004

Newspaper providers see text messaging as a potential threat. The rapid delivery of text messages can deliver news to consumers much faster than print or even a web news story. However, the amount of detail in a text message seems unlikely to be enough for someone really interested in the story. Even with the shortened lingo used in text messages such as MYOB (mind your own business) and LOL (laugh out loud), it is hard to imagine an entire news article condensed into two lines of text. However, text messaging could work for subjects like stock quotes, sports scores and weather forecasts.