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I wonder what it costs to operate Twitter Digits. I can't imagine they are using Twilio as an SMS gateway.


Twitter used to be the biggest SMS sender in United States. Much larger than Twilio, even bigger than operators like Verizon and AT&T. Infrastructure that came from Cloudhopper acquisition with continuous care and improvement gave Twitter a reliable and super cost effective _world-wide_ SMS delivery platform.

(I was an employee 2012–2016)


Wow, thanks for the insight. It's easy to forget that Twitter was an SMS centric platform not too long ago.


Hi Berk. ;)


Twitter has a bunch of longstanding SMS delivery agreements, so it's quite cheap.


Crazy thought but does Digits have value for Google with adding SMS to Allo?




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