Lots of wrong answers in the replies. As the former King of SMS, it’s simple:
It’s to warm the number.
You cannot send bulk texts containing a URL until your number has earned credibility with phone carriers.
To earn credibility, it needs to have replies from other numbers. So the message they send is always something that tries to elicit a response from you.
Once response rate is high and the phone number is warmed, they send tens of thousands of spam links to people.
Best way to fight back? Replying STOP in all caps will immediately flag the number.
@turingts@pesterhazy@davefarley77 the key part of the message that you’re replying to is “all it needs to be is releasable”
if you can’t iterate on a feature in a way where it’s releasable and also incomplete at the same time, that’s when you want to pull out your feature flag
@olearydan@danielsaidi@azamsharp never know tho! sometimes you’ll obfuscate the difference between a 401 and a 404 so a consumer can’t figure out if a resource exists without having authentication