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There’s been a leading theory that Twilio has turned a big blind eye to misuse of the their platform for sending spam. They have all these clauses, rules etc sure; they make a good show of it, but they are really slow for example to close loopholes, if at all. They’ve done a good job of making the whole thing look like they take it seriously while being clever enough to leave loopholes and obvious workarounds to anyone who knows where to look

Or so the theory goes



Drop a decent enough spend and they will look away for a while. Open an account with a burner gmail and test out the api using free credits - shut down within the hour.


IMO sms costs are extortion. It should be an open standard with standard interfaces and cost the same as email, which is to say be basically free.

There isn’t really any reason why it can’t be that I can think of




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