Has anyone used the TextNow app before? Can police trace the TextNow number to your real phone number?

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Ok so please do not judge me for what I am about to say because I know it seems incredibly childish especially for my friend and I both being 25 years old. My best friend's boyfriend recently broke up with her and we found out he's been cheating with this 18 year old and now they're taking their relationship pretty public. My best friend is obviously devastated and I'm disgusted by her ex, who we all knew and loved and never expected this in one million years. One night, we were having a girls night drinking wine and gossipping. We decided to download the TextNow App (which we've never used before) and text the girl. We didn't tell her who we were, we remained anonymous the whole time, and we were telling her that if a guy would cheat on someone with her, he'll definitely do it again and cheat on her. I know we shouldn't have done it it's extremely immature at our age but it was a big group of us and we had been drinking and we were all trying to make our friend feel better. We didn't talk to the girl long, only a few minutes, then we stopped, and deleted the TextNowaccount and released the phone number. She said she was going to go to the cops if we didn't tell her who it was but we didn't plan on harrassing her we just told her to be careful of the guy that's pretty much it. Can police trace the TextNow number to the phone that we used? If anyone's used this app before or has any experience with it, please let me know. Thank you.
Has anyone used the TextNow app before? Can police trace the TextNow number to your real phone number?
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