Thanks to one our users JOEWY, we have started testing Tracfone as one of our Mobile Carrier options within the drop down menu. Please give us feedback whether or not your texts actually go through to the your friends/family who are on Tracfone. Otherwise you can still use fonefinder.net to determine which carrier they are on.

It has been brought to our attention by a lot of cricket users that they receive their response back in jumbled letters and numbers. In the past we had a script that sorted out the actual text from the garbage. We need your help in resolving this, please copy and paste the text so we can try to unscramble it. Thanks!

INBOX issue has been resolved. We were hammered with SPAM last night that clogged up our mail queue. We have resolved that and put in place a filter that will prevent this in the future. All your messages should appear in your INBOX during the outage. We have also made receiving the messages quicker than before. Cut down the latency in half.

We are experiencing heavy delays within all INBOXes. We have a lot of messages queuing from last night. You can still send text messages just fine, but receiving them currently we ask that you use your personal email address for replies instead of your text'em mailbox. Thanks!

If you wish to SMS to a Tracphone user, please use this site fonefinder.net in order to determine what carrier that number is on. If you have questions about the carrier, please send us an email and we can further assist. Most likely Tracphone users belong to AT&T, Verizon, US Cellular, etc. We like to thank everyone that has participated in this solution. Thanks!

We are attempting to add the wireless provider TRACFONE onto our list. We need your help in testing, please provide us with the mobile numbers of the people you wish to text so we can further test on our end. Thanks!

We have resolved our issues with our scripts. We are now off Godaddy as well, on a more reliable and efficient hosting provider!. Our processes are more streamlined and processing incoming and outgoing text messages much faster! We appreciate your support through this whole ordeal. Thanks!

We are working on RECEIVING messages back to your INBOX. We finally migrated off Godaddy and some code is missing in order to process the INCOMING MESSAGES. Sending is fine, really fast. We are working to get the same level of service back for RECEIVING. Thanks again

INBOX issue is experiencing delays of about 4 minutes sending and receiving. Once our queue clears up this will speed up to normal again

We are investigating the residual effects from the INBOX ISSUE we faced yesterday. Please report any errors or issues are you facing so you can help us resolve this problem.

We have resolved our INBOX issue of not being able to receive incoming texts to your mailbox. We still have about 6000 mails pending to be delivered to our INBOX. All texts from June 7th up on till today will be delivered to your mailbox. Once the pending queue clears up by 10pm, you should start receiving all your new texts immediately as well. We apologize for the outage and we thank you for your patience and support as always.

We are experiencing issues with our database in terms of receiving texts. Sending texts is still functioning just fine. We are addressing this matter and will be up soon. Thanks for your support!

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Services have been RESTORED! We apologize yet again for the delayed service of texting. We are working on migrating our website to another provider soon. This has delayed our progress on adding new features onto our existing service. We hope to start working on new carriers, MMS, and other enhancements once we settle into our new hosting provider.

Godaddy has really goofed up on their services, we will be migrating off their hosting platform and will be going elsewhere. I cannot maintain uptime and reability with them, LONG downtimes are common with them. I am done with them. In the coming day or two we are migrating to another hosting company, we will of course keep you informed of all upcoming downtime. Right now the message queue has been tweaked and performance is EXCELLENT. Sending texts are in real-time speeds. As always we thank you for your support, please try to click on our banners and ads to keep us afloat. I cannot afford to maintain this website if you don't help out. All we ask is you visit our sponsors occassionally.

Our SERVICE PROVIDER has RESTORED our services. At the current time our queue is really backed up from all the previous texts from yesterday. I am confident the queue will be cleared up within a couple of hours. I do not foresee any further downtime for maintanence except to add new features onto the site.

SERVICE IS DOWN because our service provider are having issues with their system. We will provide an update once we hear back from them. Unfortunately there is nothing we can do on this matter but wait for them to act accordingly.

Service has been RESTORED! We went down for a couple of hours today due to a server migration. We needed to take the server offline because the hard drive was failing. Sending Text Messages are blazing fast now! We are still waiting for the REPLIES/INBOX portion to start working again as well. That will take some time due to DNS changes. Please rest assure once all this has been completed. Our services will return to normal with higher efficiency and no more lag. We are working everyday to bring this service for free to all our users. Once we are stable, we will start working on new projects to deploy MMS, more carriers onto this site. As always stay tuned!

OUTAGE : a couple of hours. We are moving onto a new server that will allow us to support more users efficiently. Since the popularity of the site has increased, our old outdated hardware can no longer address the traffic. Rest assure, we will still provide FREE/RELIABLE SMS Service to all our users. Thank You for your support.

We were experiencing issues with our email server, that is why the message queues were backed up for so long. We have resolved this and we are reviewing our code to ensure this does not happen again. We will be upgrading to new hardware in the coming weeks to enhance our site with new enhancements please stay tuned, e.g. picture attachments, new carriers

Texting was delayed, but it is catching back up now. email sever problems.
Please let us know if you are still not able to send

Text'em Inbox FIXED

Text'em Inbox
We are having problems with our inbox. Please be patient while we fix these issues.

MySpace Text'em No Longer Supported
We no longer support the MySpace Text'em feature that we had. We're sorry for the inconvenience.

Fixed Read Sent Messages
We fixed the problem that users were having with viewing their sent messages. When you click on a message within your sent messages page, it'll now take you correctly to the message.

Sent Messages (Outbox) now available
We've been working hard to figure out a way to make sent messages (outbox) available to you without slowing down our site. We believe we figured it out. Your sent messages are now available to be viewed once again by clicking on the 'Sent Messages' link in the top nav.

All old accounts inactive accounts have been deleted
To conserve space and to keep our active users accounts running smoothly, we have deleted all user accounts who haven't logged in since 10/1/2008.

Disabled Sent Messages Permanently
We will no longer be able to display your sent messages. This is due to the fact when we do, it slows down our entire site. For the purposes of keeping the site running smoothly, we have decided we will no longer display sent messages. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Disabled Sent Messages Temporarily
With our site expanding and increasing in popularity, the amount of messages that everyone sends and receives have been causing our site slow down. To increase efficiency and speed of our site, we have decided to disable the sent messages box for for a short time.

Enabled Sent Messages (Outbox)
We have re-enabled your sent messages box. We have deleted all messages older than Oct, 1th, 2008. All older messages were slowing down our site.

Disabled Sent Messages (Outbox)
We have temporarily disabled your Sent Messages page for the time being.

Textem will only retain messages less than two months
To help increase efficency and speed on our website, we have decided to delete any old messages in your inbox and outbox that are older than months. This will be done automatically each month to ensure our site is running at optimal speed.

Deleted old messages in Inbox
We have deleted all the messages in your inbox that were older than September 1st. This will help improve the efficieny of our site and will our site to run faster. We have had several complaints of the site being slow at times, and this is one of the contributing factors to our site being slow.

Deleted old messages in Outbox (Sent Mail)
We have deleted all the messages in your outbox (your sent messages) that were older than September 1st. This will help improve the efficieny of our site and will our site to run faster. We have had several complaints of the site being slow at times, and this is one of the contributing factors to our site being slow.

Added new provider
We added Iowa Wireless (iWireless) to our list of providers.

Added new provider
We added Centennial Wireless to our list of providers.

Added new provider
We added Sasktel Wireless to our list of providers.

T-Mobile Receipts to Inbox
We've been working with our users to help resolve the problem of message receipts to your inbox from T-Mobile phones. Unfortunately, T-Mobile changed the way they sent messages within the past few days, it's fine for most people but some cell phones have been sending back messages with weird characters in them. We believe we fixed the issue but if you are still experiencing problems with this, please do not delete the messages from your inbox and then contact us and let us know.

Weird Characters for T-Mobile Inbox Receipts
We've received complaints from our users that messages sent to our users inboxes from T-Mobile phones have weird un-interpretable characters within the message. We believe we've fixed this problem but we cannot fully test this. Please contact us if you are still experiencing this problem.

Added Helio to Service Providers
We added Helio as cellular provider in our list. Please let us know if your messages do not arrive at Helio phones.

Increased Character Limit to 155
We increased the character limit that you can send to 155 characters. Remember, if you go over this amount, your message may be cut off.

Terms and Conditions checkbox removed
For users who are signed in, the terms and conditions box no longer need to be checked off before sending a text message.

Top Navigation Redesigned
We redesigned and reformatted the way the top navigation of our website looks. This new look is cleaner and more user friendly.

FIXED: Multiple Messages
We have fixed the problem that users were having with receiving the same messages over and over. Again, we apologize for this inconvenience. Please note that this is a problem with our system and not the cellular providers. The messages were not sent multiple times, they were just being recycled in our system over and over. So the people sending you messages are not being charged multiple times for the messages.

Multiple Messages
We're looking into the problem that some of our users are having with receiving the same messages multiple times. Please be patient while we look into this and sorry for the inconvenience.

Return Address Changed
Now when you send text messages to people and select a reply to inbox, your return address will be your own username plus @textem.net. You can view what your reply address will be by going to your settings page.

If you experience any problems receiving replies back after this switch, please let us know.

FIXED AGAIN: Duplicate Messages
Some users who complained of having duplicate messages yesterday, this problem should be fixed now for hopefully good. If you still experience problems with duplication, please contact us and let us know. We'll look into it.

Metro PCS updated
If you were having problem sending messages to Metro PCS, those problems should be resolved.

FIXED: Duplicate Messages
We have fixed the issue with duplicate messages appearing in your inbox. We fixed this issue at around 11:30 (Eastern Time), so you may have dupicate messages before this time.

Duplicate Messages in your Inbox
We are aware of the problem with people receiving duplicate messages in their inbox. We're working to fix this issue and will hopefully come up with a resolution shortly. Stay tuned.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Inbox - IS WORKING

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.

Inbox - Now working
The inbox should now begin receiving messages. The issue has been resolved.

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.

Maintenance Complete - receiving messages now
You should now begin being able to receive text messages in your inbox.

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.

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