B
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95%
95% -- sms read rate within 3 minutes for SMS text messages (2017)
According to Forbes, 95% of texts are read within 3 minutes of being sent.
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95%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2017
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Evidence Quality
B
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Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
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Forbes
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https://appconnect.talkdesk.com/app/textline.html ↗
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Talkdesk appconnect
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Forbes
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Cited by Textline as attributed to Forbes; original methodology not stated
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SMS text messages: 95% sms read rate within 3 minutes. Source: Forbes (2017). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/sms-read-within-3-minutes
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