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I wonder how many of the spam calls are actually powered by Twilio? Is this an instance of a company trying to make money by getting paid by businesses on one h

I wonder how many of the spam calls are actually powered by Twilio? Is this an instance of a company trying to make money by getting paid by businesses on one hand to do spam calls, and getting paid by consumers on the other hand to block spam calls?

dqv 7y ago
>I wonder how many of the spam calls are actually powered by Twilio? Probably not very many. Think about it: the spammer has to pay for each minute of call time on Twilio. Let's say a spammer spams for 12 hours a day at $0.013 a minute. On average that's $9.36 a day. So if they want to do this with 24 "lines", that's $224.46 a day. Now consider the the cost of (on-premise) phone lines provided by a company like Time Warner Cable: $25-$45 per line per month (the last time I checked). That's more like $36 a day. So with Twilio the spammer would be paying 6x the cost.