Can black-SA mobile-users read 800-char messages?

[n***@gmail.com]

It seems that everybody in SA has got a cell phone; but I don't
know how they would read a message of about 800 characters.
That's about 20 lines: less than half an A4 page.
And of the ones who can access internet, how do they
enter a long address/URL?

Can twitter or facebook do this?
Is it the case that many of them use twitter or facebook,
but are unfamiliar accessing a general URL?

What's involved and how long does it take to join/test
twitter or facebook?

[Steve Hayes]

Post by n***@gmail.com
It seems that everybody in SA has got a cell phone; but I don't
know how they would read a message of about 800 characters.
That's about 20 lines: less than half an A4 page.
And of the ones who can access internet, how do they
enter a long address/URL?
Can twitter or facebook do this?
Is it the case that many of them use twitter or facebook,
but are unfamiliar accessing a general URL?
What's involved and how long does it take to join/test
twitter or facebook?

Do you think that in South Africa there are separate cell phone networks for
black and white?

What are you asking here?

[n***@gmail.com]

Post by Steve Hayes

Post by n***@gmail.com
It seems that everybody in SA has got a cell phone; but I don't
know how they would read a message of about 800 characters.
That's about 20 lines: less than half an A4 page.
And of the ones who can access internet, how do they
enter a long address/URL?
Can twitter or facebook do this?
Is it the case that many of them use twitter or facebook,
but are unfamiliar accessing a general URL?
What's involved and how long does it take to join/test
twitter or facebook?

Do you think that in South Africa there are separate cell
phone networks for black and white?

Let's consider a second dimension of user division: gender.
The network is part of the environment and the users are
divided by gender. Can you claim that there is no difference
in average capabilities/tendencies for certain actions within
the same environment?

Let's consider a third dimension for this very same action:
age. I've implied/revealed that older persons don't use
twitter/facebook. Do you dispute that too.

Post by Steve Hayes
What are you asking here?

Scan down for the "?" characters, and then step back till
you reach the first "." character and re-read the enclosed
section -- repeatedly.

Actually I could better ask:
'would the current population of black unemployed,
yet able to read and write english, be able to
receive a 800 character message, with the currently commonly
available mobile phones that they have access to, for the purpose
of initial sceening for job applications.'

But that's a bit too long for a subject line.

Market researchers specialise in such info.

Their SMS facilities would suffice to reply to the 'test question',
but how will they read the 800-char test question?