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Re:Twilio blocked our account and with it hundreds of our cu... by plasma on Thursday April 15, 2021 @04:46AM (#26817813)
I've only briefly played with Twilio, but would it be possible for your app/TwilML to intercept the request to send a text to those numbers, and detect a volume of X messages being sent to the same number (highly unlikely) and abort?
Re:Twilio blocked our account and with it hundreds of our cu... by ksajadi on Thursday April 15, 2021 @05:29AM (#26818178)
That's one of their recommendations. So the idea of Twilio is just drop a library and we take care of telephony for you, but then they suggest you implement cooldown periods, exponential backoffs, use their other services (paid) to check if the number is a mobile etc. And they tell you this, after you get the nasty bill.