Philip_Marlowe

Philip_Marlowe t1_j6gwyfw wrote

That's a shortsighted way to look at it though. If Twilio goes bust, there will be a mad scramble to replace thousands of MFAs and automated SMS messages for just about every software platform and PPI-protecting app and website on the planet.

We're not only talking corporate software outages, which would grind our economy to a screeching halt, but also major impacts on consumer life when email, online banking, utility billing, chain restaurants, e-retailers, Venmo, Uber/Lyft, eBay, etc. all need to reauthenticate every user all at once.

I'm not as familiar with the space Twilio is in as I would like to be, but I know they're a market leader and they have thousands of enterprise customers. Shutting them down would have a massive ripple effect.

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