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>If you're in Boston without phone service, use this website to call your family.

Or, use Gmail to make unlimited domestic calls. Its disturbing that companies are looking to get marketing even out of tragic events like these.



Whenever people say stuff like this, I wast to bring up the idea of the "net good" of the implementation.

Twillio doing this doesn't take away from the tragedy and it's not preying on vulnerable people. It's helping people through their service. If they get press for it, so be it.

It's unfortunate that people think that in order for one party to "win", another party has to "lose." I think this is a good case of win/win.


By putting a big logo on the page, they are definitely trying to get some marketing mileage out of it.


Which is also promoting the gmail unlimited domestic calls service, driving business to Google.


This doesn't require you to sign up for a service.




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