I believe they didn’t like the idea of people setting up notifications to received Trump tweets and deleting the app
Twitter kills off SMS notifications and posting in most countries
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Hah! I did something quite similar back in the day for text message notifications of server downtime. The problem was that sometimes Twitter's messages were delayed by hours...
Does anyone remember the drama of failwhale and their Rails issues? Those were the times!
You mean when Michael Arrington used his popular meda outlet to assassinate Blaine Cook's job and reputation?
https://techcrunch.com/2008/04/23/amateur-hour-over-at-twitt...
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does anyone remember the drama of failwhale and their Rails issues? Those were the times!
You mean when Michael Arrington used his popular meda outlet to assassinate Blaine Cook's job and reputation? https://techcrunch.com/2008/04/23/amateur-hour-over-at-twitt...
Heck, if you use Twitter a lot you've probably seen the return of the failwhale over the past several months: https://imgur.com/a/p6mYfIw
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You might not realize just how expensive SMSes can be. Based on AWS SMS pricing, they cost 6/10ths of a cent to US destinations each, so each deal sent to 90,000 people in the article would cost twitter $540. That's not even getting into Europe that can cost over 10 cents per SMS, but I doubt twitter supported that.
>>> Europe that can cost over 10 cents per SMS Not my knowledge. SMS prices in Europe varies from country to country, but I would say that they are, on average, around 3-4 cents. You have cheap countries like Portugal (1-2 cent), intermediate countries like Spain (2-3 cents) and France (3 cents) and expensive countries like Germany (6 cents) or Belgium (6 cents). From the top of me head, Azerbaijan is the most expens…
It sounds like Amazon is adding quite a surcharge onto their SMS, then.
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Are dynamic DNS services no longer a thing?
Yep, free dynamic DNS still exists, for example NoIP https://www.noip.com/ However, you have to refresh it each month by filling out a "I'm still using it" web form they email you. So, you can't just set it & forget it.
I use Now-DNS.com and you don't have to check in with them.
Re: Twitter kills off SMS notifications and posting in most countries
#157There's some irony in that Twitter have moved on from the 140 character limit, and now cutting off SMS. Both were core features of the platform when initially launched, so that it coupled nicely with mobile/cell phones (obviously in the pre smartphone era).
On the flip side, the experience is remarkably similar now to what it was a decade ago. It’s materially the same, which is rare for unicorns of this time.
structurally its vaguely similar, but the experience is not the same at all.
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Lol I may or may not currently be using a Twitter account and cron to broadcast any changes to my (non-static) home ip address, encrypted, so I can ssh into my workstation when I'm on vacation.
Cloudflare's API supports this for free; my Ubiquiti router updates my DNS records when/if something changes. But I love your hack :)
Which Ubiquiti router are you using for home use?
A friend of mine convinced me to get us a Fortinet appliance at home - it’s good, I can’t deny - but integration with th rest of our Ubiquiti kit would be nice.