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Yes, it’s a cost cutting measure — but a particularly sad one as Twitter once hoped to lead in this space and seemingly conceded it all to Twilio. It’s a sad d
by andrewe-ca 4y ago
Yes, it’s a cost cutting measure — but a particularly sad one as Twitter once hoped to lead in this space and seemingly conceded it all to Twilio.
It’s a sad development for “Twitter Digits.”
In 2014, having harnessed text messaging around the world, Twitter leveraged its global SMS support to create sign-in capabilities that anyone could use. (Twilio, Stripe, Shop now excel at this). https://blog.twitter.com/developer/en_us/a/2014/a-better-way-to-sign-in-with-digits https://blog.twitter.com/developer/en_us/a/2014/a-better-way...
- lxgr 4y agoIt’s hard to feel sad about the loss of a service that apparently propagates the idea of phone numbers as logins or user identifiers.