If you were impressed by the teen who sent a measly 14,528 texts in one month, you're going to be blown away by this. Two men in Pennsylvania recently sent a record-breaking 217,000 texts in the month of March alone.

Nick Andes, 29, and Doug Klinger, 30, both Lancaster, PA residents, have been friends since they attended Berks Technical Institute together. Fascinated by the texting phenomenon, the two set out on a mission to break the current texting record: 182,000 sent in 2005 by Deepak Sharma in India.
The men set their mobile phones up to send multiple messages, and during testing discovered they could send up to 6-7,000 texts a day, which prompted 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.
With Andes sending over 140,000 messages and Klinger sending more than 70,000, they reached the end of the month with just over 217,000 total messages sent. Unreal!
One down side to the experiment? A $26,000 phone bill received by Andes. Both men thought they were taking advantage of "unlimited texting," which is why the inches-thick phone bill came as quite a shock. "It came in a box that cost $27.55 to send to me," he said Tuesday. Andes panicked and called T-Mobile, who said they were investigating the charges. Fingers crossed for him! That's one pricey text-periment.
Reps at Guinness Book of World Records have not responded to inquiries about whether or not the experiment could officially be counted as a 'world record.'
Here's hoping their thumbs are recovering nicely. What's your personal text messaging record?
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