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by jeffiel 3mo ago
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 10 minutes while I walked through it, then said “Yeah yeah I’
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by jeffiel 1y ago
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 interested [0] [0] https://www.twilio.com/en-us&
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by jeffiel 2y ago
Timely! https://theonion.com/study-crows-intelligent-enough-to-steal...
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by jeffiel 3y ago
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 to deter these fraudsters. If you’re interested, you can lea
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by jeffiel 3y ago
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. All Programmable SMS customers will get it soon as well.
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by jeffiel 3y ago
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 compelling case to the business why they should pay for it. I
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by jeffiel 3y ago
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 typically work with customers who are victims of fraud and the f
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by jeffiel 3y ago
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 Segment, and are focused on the integration of data and communicat
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by jeffiel 5y ago
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 note with your account at jeff@twilio.com, and I'll e
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Russian module suddenly fires thrusters after docking with space station(arstechnica.com)
10 points by jeffiel 5y ago|2 comments
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by jeffiel 10y ago
The prediction is really that these stars collided about 1795 years ago, and we may find out about it soon.
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by jeffiel 12y ago
Thank you lmg643, glad we could help!
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by jeffiel 12y ago
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 :)
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by jeffiel 12y ago
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!
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by jeffiel 13y ago
We're really excited to see what hackers can do to improve the world... Let's do this!
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by jeffiel 14y ago
Great job Ducksboard team, looks fabulous. Have you looked into using Connect vs asking for credentials?
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by jeffiel 14y ago
Deadbeat!
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by jeffiel 14y ago
Check out ninjablocks too, really cool stuff they're building
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Help Us Buy Yahoo(wepay.com)
33 points by jeffiel 15y ago|15 comments
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by jeffiel 15y ago
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
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by jeffiel 15y ago
Email me your account sid, and we'll enable international SMS for your account. jeff at twilio
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by jeffiel 15y ago
Great stats Garrett! Although I'd like to see #q-tips used as well.
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by jeffiel 16y ago
I like that code is now measured in miles.
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by jeffiel 16y ago
Love the realtime valuation by bus graph. Break that $200 barrier!
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by jeffiel 16y ago
I think Bryce's point is that he doesn't like the way AngelList makes him feel about his investing.
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by jeffiel 16y ago
Drop a note to help@twilio.com, and we'll add you to the beta as soon as possible.
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by jeffiel 16y ago
"Aside from frightening my bank a few times when I got large wire transfers from America, charging a lot of money is a great idea in every possible way." That is a classic, congrats Patrick!
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by jeffiel 16y ago
To correct a misconception, Twilio works with a variety of carriers, including Level3 and Bandwidth.com. Much like Google Voice, we work with a plurality of vendors for redundancy, geographic coverage, etc.. Voxeo also works with Bandwidth
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by jeffiel 16y ago
Ha, this reminds me of the Microsoft vs. GM comparison from yesteryears. Cars would crash unexpectedly, etc.
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by jeffiel 16y ago
War is a political problem too, doesn't mean you shouldn't have an army ready.

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