short message (GSM) (SM)

In the context of ITWissen.info, text messages are treated as electronic messages that are transmitted via mobile networks or the Internet. Short messages can be sent and received equally from stationary desktops and from mobile devices, from cell phones, smartphones, and tablets. The difference between a text message and an e-mail is that the number of characters in text messages is limited.

Text messages are short messages that are transmitted from a sender to one or more receivers. The first service for short messages was paging with call classes fortone, numeric, alphanumeric and data. What is known as a mobile communications service is the short message service, SMS, which can be used to transmit text information of up to 140 characters. This classic short message service has been extended to include graphics and multimedia objects in the Enhanced Messaging Service( EMS) and Multimedia Messaging Service( MMS) versions. In addition, microblog is a short message service for weblogs.

In social networks, other easy-to-use services have evolved. Some, such as Instant Messaging( IM), Mobile Instant Messaging( MIM) or WhatsApp, aim at real-time communication in chats. They are not necessarily classified as short messages. However, this includes the popular service Twitter, whose short messages, known as tweets, are often read by an infinite number of followers. Twitter tweets are short messages with a maximum text length of 140 characters.