Gandhinagar: If you thought text messaging was just for communication, you may be wrong. It can get you in the record books as well.
Twenty-five-year-old software engineer, Nitin Thakor has set a new record of sending over five-and-a-half lakh SMSs in just 30 days in Gandhinagar.
In fact Nitin sent more than 5,54,000 SMSs from his cell phone in January.
This means on an average, Nitin sent one SMS every five seconds, 13 messages ever one minute, 718 messages ever hour and 18,705 messages every day.
And the charges? Nothing. Nitin was under a service plan, where SMSing was free. He now wants to send as many as one crore messages in a single month.
"I always wanted to do something big. And then this happened. My aim is to send one crore messages in a month," Nitin said.
Nitin's passion for SMSs almost got him into trouble after he sent over a 100 messages to a police officer in a single day. His friends don't think his new obsession is too much fun either.
"In the evenings, we have to call him and tell him 'please do not send messages to me'. It’s then that I am spared," Nitin’s friend, Bhagirath Solanki said.
Nitin's feat has got him a place in the Limca Book of Records and he has also sent his application to the Guinness Book of World Records.(Jan 2006)
