{"id":330647,"date":"2019-11-10T13:42:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T18:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/people-are-suddenly-getting-texts-from-last-valentines-day.php"},"modified":"2019-11-10T13:42:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T18:42:17","slug":"people-are-suddenly-getting-texts-from-last-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurism\/people-are-suddenly-getting-texts-from-last-valentines-day.php","title":{"rendered":"People Are Suddenly Getting Texts From Last Valentine\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-assets.futurism.com\/2019\/11\/people-getting-texts-last-valentines-day-300x158.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"A glitch by third-party text platform Syniverse resulted in the delayed delivery of thousands of texts originally penned on Valentine's Day.\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div><h2>New Month, Who Dis?<\/h2><p>If you received an unexpectedly romantic text from your SO &mdash; or an ex &mdash; early Thursday morning, it wasn&rsquo;t because they guzzled some <del>tequila<\/del> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=36WVirpAieM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Love Potion No. 9<\/a>.<\/p><p>A glitch by third-party text platform Syniverse resulted in the delayed delivery of <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/4524e456791d4cf48b2f94640a4ab589\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">thousands of messages<\/a> originally penned in February, including texts intended for Valentine&rsquo;s Day &mdash; and even some from people who are now deceased.<\/p><h2>Awkward!<\/h2><p>Syniverse confirmed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2019\/11\/07\/forgot-you-not-valentines-day-ghost-texts-arrive-months-late\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement to <em>The Washington Post<\/em><\/a> that regular maintenance by its IT staff caused 168,149 previously undelivered messages to finally go through Thursday morning.<\/p><p>The strange glitch affected a range of devices operated by several carriers, including Sprint, T-Mobile, AT&amp;T, and Verizon.<\/p><p>&ldquo;We apologize to anyone who was impacted by this occurrence,&rdquo; William Hurley, Syniverse&rsquo;s chief marketing and product officer, said in the statement. &ldquo;While the issue has been resolved, we are in the process of reviewing our internal procedures to ensure this does not happen again, and actively working with our customers&rsquo; teams to answer any questions they have.&rdquo;<\/p><h2>Ghost Texts<\/h2><p>Although the texts were from February, they weren&rsquo;t limited to Valentine&rsquo;s Day messages, obviously. Samantha Majorczak, a college student from Arizona, wrote on Twitter that she received a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/samijoe1129\/status\/1192463534610796545\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">text from her dad<\/a>, who had died in March.<\/p><div><p>&ldquo;I immediately started crying,&rdquo; she told <em>The Washington Post<\/em>. &ldquo;He used to text me every morning, and after going eight months without any messages, I was in complete shock.&rdquo;<\/p><\/div><p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2019\/11\/07\/forgot-you-not-valentines-day-ghost-texts-arrive-months-late\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forgot-you-not: Valentine&rsquo;s Day &lsquo;ghost texts&rsquo; arrive months late<\/a> [<em>The Washington Post<\/em>]<\/p><p><strong>More on texting:<\/strong> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/ai-apps-scan-texts-romance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Can an AI Scan Your Messages to Detect if Someone&rsquo;s Flirting?<\/a><\/em><\/p><p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/people-suddenly-getting-texts-valentines-day\">People Are Suddenly Getting Texts From Last Valentine&rsquo;s Day<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\">Futurism<\/a>.<\/p><p>See the article here:<br><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/people-suddenly-getting-texts-valentines-day\" title=\"People Are Suddenly Getting Texts From Last Valentine&rsquo;s Day\">People Are Suddenly Getting Texts From Last Valentine&rsquo;s Day<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> New Month, Who Dis?  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurism\/people-are-suddenly-getting-texts-from-last-valentines-day.php\">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":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}