However, as the millions of active mobile text message users in Asian and European countries have shown us, consumers are willing to input text even with primitive keypads.

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So to get his attention, I switched to my word processor, typed a long message, copied it to my clipboard, copied my clipboard over to his clipboard, and pasted the message into his active window.

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The Environment: Be even more active in recruiting experts who are sympathetic to your view, and much more active in making them part of your message.

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The megaphone lets you send a message to your less-active friend telling them to go for a walk, run or bike ride -- but you can only bully them once ever seven days.

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This is remarkable because Twitter has been in the money-making game for only three years, primarily selling "sponsored tweets" to advertisers whose come-ons pop up in the message streams of the service's 200 million-plus active users.

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According to the Yankee Group, more than half of all teens between the ages of 13 and 17 are active users of wireless text messaging, sending blurbs using the "SMS" short message service.

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