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How to send lots of text messages?

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Renegade89

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Ok, so a local radio station is having a contest, and whoever sends the most text messages to their (as in the radio station's) number by Feb. 28 wins a trip to a concert.

What do you think the best way to send out tons of text from my iPhone number would be? I dont think I'll have a chance by just typing, pressing send, typing, pressing send, etc. Any suggestions?
 
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Post up your number here and we will all send you 100 txt's each that's 5,000 txt's at 50 members...
 
moka said:
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Post up your number here and we will all send you 100 txt's each that's 5,000 txt's at 50 members...
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Lol, i wish it was that easy... but they station counts the texts it gets from each phone number. So the text has to specifically come from my number.
 
Text google and cha-cha for for like 5 hours straight..

Or if you have twitter.. set all your updates to be received by SMS.. (I have 750+ followers, did it, and for 25 minutes that it was running, I got 753 text messages) :p
 
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InfiniteSMS. 99 cents unlimited texting. I got it in the app store this morning.
 
So, apparently no one is actually reading what he needs...the OP needs to SEND a lot of texts to a single number. It's an interesting question, I have no idea though.
 
What needs to be in the messages? Anything specific or can it be just any random messages to them?
 
Renegade89 said:
Yes, I have to send the texts. I edited the original post for clarity.
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I tried to use the + with a same number but the iPhone notices they're the same so it erases it, I was hoping it won't so you can add multiple recipients with the same number. Other than that, like what Sirobin said, interesting question but I have no idea.
 
Why don't you just type something, copy, paste, and send over and over.


.......oh wait.......


fail.
 
Rayfire said:
I tried to use the + with a same number but the iPhone notices they're the same so it erases it, I was hoping it won't so you can add multiple recipients with the same number. Other than that, like what Sirobin said, interesting question but I have no idea.
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Yeah, I tried the same thing =/

jlwillia said:
Why don't you just type something, copy, paste, and send over and over.


.......oh wait.......


fail.
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Well, he could just type a space, press send, and do that over and over...but he wants a better way.
 
jlwillia said:
Why don't you just type something, copy, paste, and send over and over.


.......oh wait.......


fail.
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Why is it a fail? The iPhone has copy and paste.
*cough*Clippy*cough*
Oh, wait, you have to jailbreak.
Is that a problem?
No.
 
All I have to type is "Lady", so copy/pasting with clippy isn't really worth it. I wish I could put the same number in a message to "multiple" recipients, but like Rayfire said, it just erases the number.
 
cjm3113 said:
What if you make multiple contacts with the same number? Still erase it?
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Rayfire said:
I tried to use the + with a same number but the iPhone notices they're the same so it erases it, I was hoping it won't so you can add multiple recipients with the same number. Other than that, like what Sirobin said, interesting question but I have no idea.
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It won't let you add a recipient which has a number already on the SMS recipient list.

@OP
Can you borrow a different phone that has faster SMS sending?
Those phones that only requires you to press one single button repetitively so
you can send multiple text messages to a single (or more) recipient.
 
Rayfire said:
@OP
Can you borrow a different phone that has faster SMS sending?
Those phones that only requires you to press one single button repetitively so
you can send multiple text messages to a single (or more) recipient.
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Well I still have my RAZR that I had before I got my iPhone, but wouldn't I like have to deactivate my iphone to use it?
 
acfusion29 said:
Nope, just switch sims and your good to go!
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Precisely. If you're that unsure, back up your iPhone first with iTunes so everything is saved, then remove the sim and put it on your Razr and text away! ;)

First time I suggested a different mobile phone over an iPhone haha
 
It's easy for me to send messages, but you need to jailbreak your iPhone first.

Copy and Paste then click Send.
 

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locifcan said:
It's easy for me to send messages, but you need to jailbreak your iPhone first.

Copy and Paste then click Send.
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My phone is jailbroken. What the heck is that?


On a side note, I tried using a few of the jailbroken apps for text messaging, and with biteSMS I was able to send messages to multiple recipiants of the same number, but when i went to resend in the "outgoing" list I had created, all I got was automatic replies from the error system, saying i didn't enter a valid number. Basically after sending once it added +1 to each number, making it invalid (probably because the number we have to text is a 5-digit number).
 
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