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Blaine commented on Scaling Twitter We didn’t use them at first, but should have. :-) 3 years ago
Blaine commented on Scaling Twitter The difficulty is that the carriers that allow their customers to recharge prepaid cards take our money to do so; in effect, Twitter (and any other service that offers free delivery of SMS messages) becomes a source of free money. It’s inherently unsustainable. More generally, the point of this slide was that it’s not a good scaling practice to allow "abusive" users to undermine continued access to "legitimate" users (and that the definition of both of those terms is subject to your own particular situation). There’s always room for creativity - until we’re able to deal directly with Italian carriers to ensure that we don’t act as a prepaid card refill service, Italian users are able to send messages via SMS, and are able to receive messages via AIM or the Mobile Web (and soon Email as well). 3 years ago

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