• Campaigns may have lost their most effective - and annoying - outreach

    From Bill Horne@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 20 15:57:45 2022
    Texting voters just got harder, right before the midterms.

    By Rachel M. Cohen - Jul 19, 2022

    Text messaging - with their markedly high "open rates" - is an
    especially potent form of political outreach: Since 2016, texting has
    become one of the most appealing ways for campaigns to engage voters
    or supporters, especially as so many have ditched their landlines.

    But as part of a broader effort to crack down on the fast-growing
    problem of spam calls and texts, mobile carriers like AT&T, T-Mobile,
    and Verizon have been rolling out a new policy that affects any
    business, nonprofit, union, or campaign that intends to send at least
    3,000 messages per day.

    https://www.vox.com/2022/7/19/23268260/midterms-texting-10dlc-campaigns-optin-mobile

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