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I'm curious how much money Twitter is saving by cutting the option.

• jdofaz 7y ago
  Supposedly they had deals with the carriers https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3668372/how-was-twitter-able-to-send-receive-millions-of-sms-messages-for-free https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3668372/how-was-twitter-...
• mtnGoat 7y ago
  I'd venture to bet its pretty significant, and i'll bet whatever provider they were using is scrambling right now.
• dylan33x 7y ago
  It’s strictly due to security and feature development From what I understand
• dalyons 7y ago
  twitter had/has so called "zero rated" deals with most carriers, cut way back when. They dont(at least they didnt used to) pay anything per SMS, for most carriers. However, the infrastructure to go direct to that many international carriers is/was quite complicated, from both a technical & ongoing business management PoV (carriers are awful to deal with in both categories). i imagine the savings from no longer having to maintain either are quite substantial.