{"id":378,"date":"2016-03-15T16:49:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T16:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/?p=378"},"modified":"2016-03-21T14:27:05","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T14:27:05","slug":"writing-your-text-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/writing-your-text-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing your text message."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page-header\">\n<h1>Writing Your Text Message<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"page-main\">\n<article class=\"knowledgebase-single\">\n<div class=\"knowledgebase-content\">\n<h3>Composing: things to bear in mind\u2026<\/h3>\n<p>For each 160 characters you use in your text message to a UK mobile number, 1 credit will be used. 160 is the standard length for a SMS text message, however there are some instances noted below that are worth keeping in mind:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Using Text-Connect you can send &#8216;Long&#8217; messages which give you more scope when communicating complex information.\u00a0 You can draft long messages up to 456 characters in length (effectively 3 messages long) and this will use 1 credit per 160 character block.<\/li>\n<li>Be sure to check the character &amp; message count as you type to see how many credits your message will use.<\/li>\n<li>Your messages sent to mobile numbers outside of the UK will use 2 credits per 160 character message. Please call for more information on our International coverage.<\/li>\n<li>Some &#8216;special&#8217; characters (e.g. \u00a3, $, &amp;) are counted as 2 because they are not part of the standard GSM character set (a to z, 0 to 9). This could push you over the 160 character, 1 credit threshold for your message.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can<a href=\"http:\/\/goto.text-connect.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\"> login to Text-Connect to start composing a message here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing Your Text Message Composing: things to bear in mind\u2026 For each 160 characters you use in your text message to a UK mobile number, 1 credit will be used. 160 is the standard length for a SMS text message, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/writing-your-text-message\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[97,98,105,102,101,95,100,99,96,10,6,104,27,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450,"href":"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions\/450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}