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by ikiris 1457 days ago
If you allow people to send unsolicited invite sms… what did you expect? You should have lost
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The intent of the TCPA was absolutely not to disallow text messages being sent for app invites. We did not spam any contacts. A user invited their sister to join them on their account by manually selecting them from their contact list. We just sent the text message via Twilio vs having the user send it themselves.

And regardless of whether you like this or not, this was not the use case the law was implemented for, which is to stop robocallers.