Guinness World Record For Longest Imessage (2024)

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What is the world record for most text messages? ›

The most text messages received in one hour is 19,649, and was achieved by Aleradah Organization for Talented People with Disability (Saudi Arabia) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on 3 December 2020.

Anything longer than 160 characters is chopped up and delivered as multiple individual messages, sometimes out of order. TL;DR: Apple devices usually send messages over WiFi or your data, but sometimes they have to resort to SMS. Since SMS networks only accept 160 characters, they break up longer texts.

In New Zealand, Alastair Galpin performed the longest full body massage for 25 hours and 4 minutes in 2015.

In 2004, the Flaming Chicken Longest Text Ever was created. It ended with 203,941 characters in 2005. Also in 2004, the Hermnerp Longest Text Ever came, and it was written by two people. That's why it has 230,634 characters.

A single SMS message technically supports up to 160 characters, or up to 70 if the message contains one or more Unicode characters (such as emoji or Chinese characters).

The Guinness World Record for the longest kiss is 58 hours, 35 minutes and 58 seconds, achieved by Ekkachai Tiranarat and Laksana Tiranarat at a Ripley's Believe It Or Not event in Pattaya, Thailand, between February 12-14, 2013.

According to GWR, the longest kiss ever lasted was of 58 hours 35 minutes, achieved by Thai couple Ekkachai and Laksana Tiranarat. The superlative smooch took place at an event organised by Ripley's Believe It or Not! in Pattaya, Thailand, beginning on 12 February 2013 and ending two days later, on Valentine's Day.

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The first record recognized by the Guinness World Records was recorded by Sir Hugh Beaver, the managing director of the Guinness Brewery, in 1955. The record-setting event took place when he was involved in an argument about the fastest game bird in Europe while on a hunting trip.

A 14-year-old Chinese boy, Ren Keyu, measuring 7 ft 3.02 in has received the Guinness World Records title for the tallest teenager (male). The desks and chairs in Ren's home and school are tailor-made to accommodate his height.

What is the record for texting? ›

18.19 seconds. That's how fast teen Marcel Fernandes Filho from Brazil typed the following message on a smartphone, setting a new Guinness World Record for fastest texter.

Despite these advancements, the 160-character limit is still widely accepted as a standard for SMS messaging.

Text message sending drops to 664.4 billion per year in 2017, but 2022 saw the most messages sent per day in China, with 1.295 trillion texts sent that year, or around 3.5 billion messages sent a day.

Mobile phone users in the U.S. alone sent 2 trillion messages per day in 2021, which breaks down to 6 billion messages per day, and 227 million messages per hour. Though there are no definitive global figures, some sources claim that 23 billion text messages are sent worldwide each day.