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by cfn 1204 days ago
Elon Musk said that they were being fleeced by SMS fraud when the change was announced.
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And not for blue? It’s just a lame excuse foe the insane price of als using twilio.

If he stated the truth: sms validation is costing millions per week, twillio would lose quite some customers, because companies would finally realize there’s another way that’s cheaper

Blue means they’re spending $10 a month or whatever it is. No fraudster is gonna buy a VCC for Twitter Blue and pay $10 an account when there are a million other sites they could target for $0.
The point is, Elon's rhetoric is that sms is less secure, but then he only allows it for twitter blue. It's utter bs.. It's just that he doesn't want to pay 5-10ct per 2fa request for lal these users.

And I fully agree with him

Does Elon stating something make it more or less likely to be true?