Idle thumbs in America

A few days ago we heard that Russia's Communist Party is planning to use a celphone text messaging campaign to build support among younger Russians. Now, here's an article about the use of text messaging as a political tool in Kuwait.

I think it's interesting that text messaging is not being widely used in this way in the U.S. Remember that fad of the late '90s, wherein people would use text messages to get 5000 people to go to Central Park and then all howl like wolves at exactly 9:11 am, or something like that? That never really took off or morphed into something more productive, and that surprises me.