{"id":540427,"date":"2010-04-22T11:05:53","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T15:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/?p=30091"},"modified":"2010-04-22T11:05:53","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T15:05:53","slug":"brightkite-group-text-on-a-roll-in-the-united-states-now-available-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/540427","title":{"rendered":"Brightkite Group Text on a roll in the United States, now available in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/screen-shot-2010-03-12-at-11-36-20-am.png\" class=\"shot2\" \/> A mere month and a half after <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/03\/12\/brightkite-group-text\/\">launching<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brightkite.com\/\">Brightkite<\/a> says its new <a href=\"http:\/\/brightkite.com\/conversations\">Group Text<\/a> feature is a big hit with users in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>According to the startup, which boasts more than <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/02\/26\/brightkite-2-million-users\/\">2 million registered users<\/a>, the average Group Text user sends a whopping 17 messages per day. Already, its total usage is growing 19 percent on average per day. <\/p>\n<p>Brightkite is now sending more than 20 million messages a month, nearly half of which are regular SMS messages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/s2eAyVCWGiSv2WAyaZeLcVswAMs\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/s2eAyVCWGiSv2WAyaZeLcVswAMs\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/s2eAyVCWGiSv2WAyaZeLcVswAMs\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/s2eAyVCWGiSv2WAyaZeLcVswAMs\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=wjieXa_NFXE:PRLbKbTqtSc:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?i=wjieXa_NFXE:PRLbKbTqtSc:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=wjieXa_NFXE:PRLbKbTqtSc:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?i=wjieXa_NFXE:PRLbKbTqtSc:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=wjieXa_NFXE:PRLbKbTqtSc:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mere month and a half after launching, Brightkite says its new Group Text feature is a big hit with users in the United States. According to the startup, which boasts more than 2 million registered users, the average Group Text user sends a whopping 17 messages per day. Already, its total usage is growing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2162,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}