Texts From Last Night (TFLN) is a no-longer-maintained blog that used to re-post short

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s submitted by its users, originally formed as a sorority email chain by creator Lauren Leto. The site tends to post texts that are shocking or scandalous.''WHAS11''
"Website makes millions laugh with our private texts"
. July 19, 2009. The texts are sent in by people who wake in the morning "to find regrettable messages sent to or from their

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s".Tim Walker. ''The Evening Herald''
"The best way to land a book deal -- start a silly blog"
July 29, 2009. The receiver then sends the allegedly discovered text into this website. The copies of the messages do not show the phone numbers, but only

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s. Since the texts are often similar to late night drunk dials, they're often graphic and sexual in nature, thus

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. From a sociological perspective, the website is a "living document of twentysomething life in 2009". While TFLN has many "

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drinking, sex, and vomit stories", there is also an extended discussion taking place about morality. The texts show how humans "interact with drugs and alcohol". "We see the cause and effect of last night’s party, and we can see a real-time weighing of these actions." However, there is concern that peoples' actions and texts will be affected by the existence of the website and its popularity.David Mekelburg. ''Splice Today''
"Overnight Sociology: Texts From Last Night offers a better glimpse of life-as-lived than any other social networking site"
June 3, 2009.

Book

Six months after the website went up, the blog's creators – Leto Ben Bator – signed a deal with

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(part of

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) to publish a trade paperback of existing content from the blog, which was released as ''Texts from Last Night: All the Texts No One Remembers Sending'' in 2010.

TV series

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'' reported, in October 2011, that a new comedy television series based on the blog was in development at

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, with ''

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'' developer

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at the helm. This was the third attempt at developing a comedy based on the website; along with FOX,

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and

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attempted to develop the comedy in 2009 (with a script from Steve Holland), and in 2010 (

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and Michael Benson). However, none of the scripts ever produced pilots that made it to air.

Mobile apps

''Texts From Last Night'' also has mobile

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for

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and

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to browse and submit text messages.''Mobile Marketer''
"TextsFromLastNight gets back to basics with mobile app"
August 14, 2009.

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External links

Texts From Last Night
official website Web services American comedy websites Internet properties established in 2009 Text messaging

Book

TV series

Mobile apps

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