You may have noticed by now that people are posting sentences with a little phone icon next to them (text!). How do you get that icon next to your sentence? Why, post your sentence via text message, of course!
When the idea of QW was conceived, we had no idea that it would take off like it has and become so pervasive in the lives of its users. One of the issues we kept hearing about was that if the users were actually supposed to use the word they learned in conversation, they most likely had to do so away from the computer. This made it hard to post your sentence if you weren’t able to get to a computer relatively soon. Thus, in order to counteract this issue, we’ve gone ahead and integrated SMS text messaging into the website!
The FAQ page has a full disclosure on texting your sentence to the website. We have also built in a few other texting features that will enable you to stay on top of the QWOD, such as retrieving today’s word, getting an example sentence, and checking the votes on the sentence you submitted.
Are there any other features you can think of that you would like to see be accessible via text?
Tags: sms, text messaging, texting
I love the new text feature!