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I’ll share my favorite Om story. It was 2010 and we were launching Twilio SMS. I went over to his office to pitch him the story, hoping we would cover the launch. He listened for 1…

Lots of folks hit the nail on the head, it's a structural problem with a telco network that was never designed to be open. I wrote about it back in 2019 in case folks are intereste…

Timely! https://theonion.com/study-crows-intelligent-enough-to-steal...

This article is a little dated, since then we’ve released Fraud Guard. Our model can detect and block 98% of pumping traffic with only .1% false positive. It’s working really well …

It's no cost to the user! Defaults are rolled out to everybody, but the users opts-into aggressive protection because of the risk of false positives. Note, this is Verify today. Al…

At this phase we have to talk both to the business and to developers. Only talking to developers isn’t savvy or smart. AWS etc do the same thing. We can have good APIs and make a c…

It’s a good question because it goes to the incentives of a company to truly fight the problem vs saying the right things but looking the other way when convenient. For us, we typi…

Thank you Miguel for all of your contributions to Twilio over the past four years, and I hope your next gig is just as rewarding! For all those interested in why we acquired Segmen…

Hi Chris - CEO of Twilio here. I'm sorry for the issue. Fighting bad actors sucks, but we can do better to communicate with good faith builders like yourself. Mind sending me a not…

The prediction is really that these stars collided about 1795 years ago, and we may find out about it soon.

Thank you lmg643, glad we could help!

Hi - Jeff from Twilio. We're here to build the a great company for developers. The real story is APIs, not IPOs. Anything else is pure speculation :)

That demo is still using our short code - we need to update that demo to use our new long code product. Thanks for the bug find!

We're really excited to see what hackers can do to improve the world... Let's do this!

Great job Ducksboard team, looks fabulous. Have you looked into using Connect vs asking for credentials?

Deadbeat!

Check out ninjablocks too, really cool stuff they're building

Very cool! Are you coming to the Twilio Conference this week? If not, would love to have you in the audience. Ping me: jeff@twilio.com

Email me your account sid, and we'll enable international SMS for your account. jeff at twilio

Great stats Garrett! Although I'd like to see #q-tips used as well.

I like that code is now measured in miles.

Love the realtime valuation by bus graph. Break that $200 barrier!

I think Bryce's point is that he doesn't like the way AngelList makes him feel about his investing.