Mobile messaging traffic surged Tuesday night, following the official announcement that Barack Obama is the newly elected president of the United States. The volume of messages tripled between 11:00 and 11:10 p.m. EST, according to mobile services provider Sybase 365.

Furthermore, 1.2 billion messages were sent by U.S. subscribers between 7 p.m. and midnight. The total volume of SMSs was about 10 percent higher than the previous day. Another telecommunications holding company, AT&T, reported that in the hour following the announcement, text messaging across its network surged about 44 percent, the highest spike in the company’s history. Last May, AT&T reported a text messaging record of 78 million messages dedicated to the 2008 season of American Idol.

The data shows once more that this election season, voters embraced technology and social networking. From electoral clips in video games to electoral clips on video sites, such as YouTube, it seems that the world is realizing that technology is the way forward. We try to substitute everything with technology, and the American people showed their happiness for Obama’s win with a lot of text messages.

An estimated 78.58 million people watched prime-time coverage of the historic election on 14 broadcast and cable networks Tuesday night. An interesting fact shows that Obama used text messaging during his election campaign and after he was declared the winner, Obama sent out a text message to those who signed up online or by texting the campaign’s shortcode of 62262. In the text message, Obama thanked supporters for helping make history.