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htuttle

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3. There are 10,000 numbers in each telephone exchange (the middle three numbers)

Reply to Phentex (Original post)

Tue Oct 30, 2018, 05:20 PM

Oct 2018

Using personal-level computerized SMS accounts, like Twilio.com, not bulk-rate type services, I could send a text message to every number in the exchange in just under 3 hours (rate limited to 1 per second) for about $75 or less.

If I wanted to do this a lot, I could get a bulk SMS account somewhere and send bulk (10,000's) of text messages at a higher rate for a lower cost per message.

So they don't really even need to have your number -- they can just walk the tree.

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I'm getting texts on my cell from Republicans... [View all] Phentex Oct 2018 OP

I have been getting RNC texts ever since the Presidential Alert trixie2 Oct 2018 #1

My husband got a robo text today, on his FL number cell phone. secondwind Oct 2018 #2

Got something similar but did not use the orange nationalist by name... Phentex Oct 2018 #5

i thought the GOTV slogan was only used by dems.. samnsara Oct 2018 #7

There are 10,000 numbers in each telephone exchange (the middle three numbers) htuttle Oct 2018 #3

Yes but they are stinkin up my phone! Phentex Oct 2018 #4

i was volunteer texting for When We All Vote.... samnsara Oct 2018 #6

90% of of the political ads I have gotten thus far have been from Republicans The Genealogist Oct 2018 #8