In the Roseland Ballroom in New York yesterday, 13-year-old Morgan Pozgar became the US Texting Champion, winning $25,000. There were 250 contestants at the finals. According to an AFP story:
Pozgar said she trained by sending on average 8,000 text messages a month to her friends -- an astonishing rate of one every five and a half minutes. She pays 10 dollars a month for an unlimited text package on her cell phone.
In a tense championship final, Tirosh [the west coast champion] seemed to have won after putting down her phone first, only for judges to rule she had made a 15,000-dollar typo in the lyrics to Mary Poppins song "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious."
