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Text'em Updates
July 1st, 2008
Duplicate Messages in your Inbox
We were having some problems last night with our system, where we were duplicating the messages that were in your inbox. Rest assure, the messages were just being sent once, it was just our system not processing the messages correctly.

June 28th, 2008
Performing Maintenance to User Accounts
We're currently working on all user accounts on our system. If you notice any weird issues in regards to logging in, registering, retrieving passwords, etc. Please do not panic. We'll have these issues resolved quickly.

June 10th, 2008
Fixed blank text messages
Many users were having problems with blank text messages being sent last night. We have resolved this problem. This should no longer be happening.

June 3rd, 2008
T-Mobile Users can now reply back into your inbox
People who you send messages to on the T-Mobile network can now reply back to your messages to your inbox! We were having problems in the past with T-Mobile, but we have resolved all of the issues now.

June 2nd, 2008
AT&T Messages in Inbox
To all the users who have been receiving messages back from AT&T/Cingular users, you'll now notice that the message will not include the '---Original Message---' text after the message.

June 2nd, 2008
Inbox - IS WORKING

June 2nd, 2008
Inbox - Unavailable until 2PM ESTD
We're having problems with our website. The inbox services will be down until 1PM ESTD. Please use your email address as a reply to address until this is fixed.

May 29th, 2008
Inbox - Now working
The inbox should now begin receiving messages. The issue has been resolved.

May 29th, 2008
Inbox - Unavailable
We apologize but at the moment, you will not be able to receive text messages to your inbox. We're working on fixing the issue and will post up messages on our site once the fix has been placed. You can use your email address as a reply to address until we get this fixed if you'd like to receive replies.

May 27th, 2008
Maintenance Complete - receiving messages now
You should now begin being able to receive text messages in your inbox.

May 27th, 2008
Inbox - Not Receiving Messages
We're performing some maintenance to our website. You'll not be receiving text messages back into your inbox until later today. We'll keep everyone updated with our status.

March, 26th 2008
FIXED
The problems we were experiencing this morning have been fixed. You should be able to receive text messages to your inbox now.

March, 26th 2008
Not receiving messages in inbox
Our web host has been experiencing some connectivity problems. Users are unable to receive text messages at the moment. Please be patient as we wait for them to resolve their issues. We'll let everyone know once this has been fixed.

March, 25th 2008
No reported problems
Everyone should not have problems receiving text messages since March 10th. We fixed the problem that day. Please read through FAQ section if you're experiencing any problems.

March, 10th 2008
Problems Receiving Messages
We're experiencing problems at the moment. Users cannot receive replies back to the inbox. Please be patient while we fix this error. If you' like to receive messages now, please have them reply back to your email address. Click here to see the instructions on how to do this.

February, 14th 2008
User Accounts are FIXED
Users who were having problems logging in before, can now log back into their accounts. We apologize for this inconvenience.

February, 14th 2008
User Accounts
We're experiencing some issues with our database, please be patient while we attempt to fix this. Our system may be telling you that you can't log in or your account doesn't exist, please disregard this message for the time being while we sort this out. You're still able to send text messages, unfortunately, they won't be able to reply to your inbox when you send it annoymously.

January, 31st 2008
Lost Messages in your Inbox
As many of you have already noticed, the majority of your old messages (if not all messages) are no longer appearing in your inbox. Unfortunatley, these messages have been deleted forever, and cannot be recovered. We've been experiencing massive problems with our service provider, which is why our site has been going down the past week. We're working with them ensure this doesn't happen again.

January, 28th 2008
Experiencing problems
We've been experiencing problems with our server for the past few days. Our site has been down since the 24th of January. We're now still experiencing problems with the inbox and your responses to your text messages. We apologize for this inconvenience, and we're working to have your inbox working once again.

January, 23rd 2008
Text Message from your MySpace page
You can now have your friends send you a text message from your MySpace page, for free of course! Click here to find out more.

January, 17th 2008
New Cellular provider added
We added Edge Wireless to our list of providers.



November 21st, 2007
Problem FIXED
Problems receiving messages in your inbox has been resolved. We were having problems with our website from the days of November 18th through November 21st. All of the messages sent to your inbox were not being received. Unfortunately, all of these messages that were sent have been lost. The good news is that the problems have been resolved, and you should now begin receiving your messages from now on. We apologize immensely for all of the problems this may have caused you.

June 6th, 2007
New Providers
We have added the following new providers:
  • Midwest Wireless
  • Morris Wireless
  • Corr Wireless
  • Dobson Communications
  • Triton


June 6th, 2007
Attention all Cricket, Metro PCS, US Cellular subscribers
For all of the people who have the following providers below, listen up! If you'd like to help us in getting your replies back to you inbox from these providers, please follow the instructions.
  1. If you have a cellphone that uses Cricket, Metro PCS or US Cellular
  2. Using your cellphone, send a text message to the address enter@textem.net
  3. Leave a message that says "sending you a sample text message"
This will help us determine how these cellular providers encode their text message. Once we figure this out, we can hopefully make it so our service can accept text messages from these providers.

June 6th, 2007
Problem FIXED
The problems we've been experiencing for the past three days with sending messages out to Sprint customers (and maybe other providers) have now been resolved.

June 6th, 2007
Problems sending out messages
We are currently having problems with our services. At the moment, messages sent by our website are NOT being received by Sprint customers. We are only aware of this problem being with Sprint and not any other services. Please be patient while we sort this out with Sprint.

May 25th, 2007
Response Rates from Cellular Providers
Click here to view our ratings of the response rates from cellular providers to Text'em.

Moved Quick Contacts dropdown box
We moved the Quick Contacts dropdown box from the left hand side of the page, directly below the service providers drop down box with the text message form. This is for ease of use and for us to make room to make more announements on the left hand side .

May 18th, 2007
Advertisements

We've received several complaints from users in regards to provactive and adult type advertisements from our users. In response to our users, we've requested for our advertising partner to no longer serve these types of ads to our site. You should no longer see any of these types of advertisements on our site, if you do, please feel free to contact us.

Please show support for our services and keep our service free by clicking on our advertisements!

May 16th, 2007
Added new Service Provider
  • Cellular One


May 14th, 2007
Text'em back in business

All of the problems we were having last week have been resolved. The problem was actually do to our host providers, they were having trouble with their network.

May 9th, 2007
Problems sending out text messages

At this time, we're having problems sending out text messages. If you are sending a text message it may or may not be received by the individual. Our staff is working hard at the moment to find the remedy to the problem, we appreciate your patience.

May 8th, 2007
Backlog of Messages

Due to the popularity of our website, we've been experiencing issues with the backlog of messages that need to be sent out. Unfortunately, we needed to delete the queue of emails that were needed to be sent from 4AM-9AM this morning. In other words, if you were sending out messages aroudn this time, your message may or may not have been received by the recipient.

May 7th, 2007
Messages were not sent for (Sprint, Verizon, Cingular, Nextel, T-Mobile) from 3:00PM until 9AM today (Eastern time)

We were having problems with our system last night that prevented everyones message from being successfully sent to the providers listed above. We apologize for this inconvenience.

May 6th, 2007
Added in the following new service providers
  • SureWest Communications
  • CellCom
  • Cincinati Bell