ALT To the Callin’ Oates community - A lot of folks have been hitting me up on social media to ask what happened to Callin’ Oates, which, as of this writing, has been non-operational for the last few months. First off, thanks. I’m constantly amazed at how many people still want to call this beautiful but very dumb hotline from 2011(!). I’ll try not to bore you with all the administrative details, but for transparency, here’s the deal: First off, you should know that Callin’ Oates was built on Twilio, a telephony platform where I was an employee from 2011-2014. It’s incredible to think that something so simple as a joke hotline could massively scale overnight and go on to take millions of calls over the years. But all this was not cheap; Twilio is a business and covered the costs the whole time. (FULL STATEMENT CONTINUES AT https://www.linkedin.com/posts/michaelselvidge_my-press-office-me-just-released-the-following-activity-7315720174064607232--NA-