Goodbye, Twilio
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Goodbye, Twilio
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Re: Goodbye, Twilio
#2The writing was on the wall when they got acquired, forced two-factor auth with SMS only and forcibly locked me out of my account by turning it on when I didn't have a phone setup. If you want to use SMS as spam prevention, then just do that. Breaking your product and forcing bad security to harvest numbers is, well, just shitty.
Re: Goodbye, Twilio
#3The writing was on the wall when they got acquired, forced two-factor auth with SMS only and forcibly locked me out of my account by turning it on when I didn't have a phone setup. If you want to use SMS as spam prevention, then just do that. Breaking your product and forcing bad security to harvest numbers is, well, just shitty.
When who got acquired? Twillio? They're a public company, aren't they?
Re: Goodbye, Twilio
#4Twilio went from cool developer tooling to facilitating global robocalls and being a net negative for the world.
Re: Goodbye, Twilio
#5The writing was on the wall when they got acquired, forced two-factor auth with SMS only and forcibly locked me out of my account by turning it on when I didn't have a phone setup. If you want to use SMS as spam prevention, then just do that. Breaking your product and forcing bad security to harvest numbers is, well, just shitty.
When who got acquired? Twillio? They're a public company, aren't they?
I assume parent is talking about when SendGrid got acquired by Twillio. I had the similar experience with it at that time.
Re: Goodbye, Twilio
#6There is a certain point at which the engineering is no longer what makes a company successful, it fuels an initial growth and can sustain it longer, but then the deciding thing on whether the company survives and thrives becomes the more operational aspects, the traditional sales & marketing.
With the product-market fit nailed, a solid offering out there, Twilio now occupies that later stage, and the buildboard reflects it. Everything changes at this point, because it's also not the top priority of the company to keep their own engineering happy at this point.
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#7It seems the MBAs are at it again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4VBqTViEx4
Twilio is now another Xerox.
MBA programs should be illegal. You can thank MBAs for spreading PFAS everywhere, single use plastic, profiteering from insulin, making every American a diabetic by adding sugar into everything, selling glyphosate for residential use, killing all the pollinators, moving all manufacturing to countries with no environmental laws, and other consumer and planet-fucking initiatives.
The number of extinct species, diabetic patients, number of employees on minimum wage with no health insurance, policitian revenue from lobbying activities, dead bees, cut trees, lost topsoil, former Roundup users with non-Hodgkins lymphoma, revenue from weapons, atmospheric temperature increase, ocean acidity, plastic waste, pollution, every form of ecocide and every other measure of things going wrong is directly proportional to the number of MBAs.
Why? because if shareholder value is everything, then the employee, the environment and society at large becomes irrelevant.
Re: Goodbye, Twilio
#8Twilio went from cool developer tooling to facilitating global robocalls and being a net negative for the world.
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#9Twilio went from cool developer tooling to facilitating global robocalls and being a net negative for the world.
Seems they have multiple income streams from negative actors ... https://billychasen.medium.com/twilios-toll-fraud-problem-28...
Re: Goodbye, Twilio
#10Twilio went from cool developer tooling to facilitating global robocalls and being a net negative for the world.
Twilio was always that way, the zeitgeist has just moved on from the unbridled optimism of the 2010's which masked it.