[screwt]

Apologies for nit-picking at punctuation, but occasionally it matters :-)

"Twilio is over-billing ..." = Twilio is charging more than they should.

"Twillio is over billing ..." = Twilio has given up on billing. It's so over.

Just my personal bugbear - but sometimes it's worth getting this sort of thing correct. Apologies if this is just a US/UK difference, also (I'm in the UK).

[300bps]

I'm from the US and I also originally thought the headline was saying something along the lines of "Trilio [has ended the practice of] billing and suspending accounts". When I clicked on the article I realized that they were "over-billing" instead of "over billing".

[peterjmag]

Since we're already nitpicking, "overbilling" (without the hyphen) is probably better.

https://www.google.com/search?q="overbilling" vs. https://www.google.com/search?q="over-billing"

[sjtgraham]

Not a single person was confused by this, including me, a British dude sitting in the middle of London.

[krisoft]

Now you got me confused. You are saying that no one was confused, not even you. Or you say that it was confusing not only for a single person, but for you too?

[sjtgraham]

I'm happy to take the karma hit I'll get for this, but IMO this is emblematic of a large problem with HN, i.e. asinine bike-shedding. I address an unhelpful nitpicking comment and get a nitpicking reply. It's turtles all the way down.

[mikeash]

The fact that two of your sibling comments are from people who were confused by this is just hilarious.

[sjtgraham]

My apologies, I clearly underestimated how many pedants comment on HN.

[fallingmeat]

agreed. I was excited to see how they were getting around that pesky issue of billing people.

[donpdonp]

same here. I was hoping the story introduced a new paradigm of charging that eliminated 'suspending' accounts all together, such as pre-paid.