I like this. Using Twilio and other similar tools to send texts has become too hard lately - especially given all the verifications you need to go through.
> There's not a lot of connectivity between Europe and SE Asia the "short" way. This is not Google-specific, compare cables across Atlantic and Pacific vs. across the Indian Ocean at https://www.submarinecablemap.com/
A big hug to all my friends at O'Reilly. Their conferences have been a big part of my career. Not only as a speaker, but I've met so many awesome people at their lunch and social occasions.
As a for-profit endeavor they have also given amazing opportunities to a diversity of speakers and topics. For many speakers it means a lot when the conference is willing to pay for their travel expenses.
Replies are considered a spammy way of getting attention.
This wasn't Twitter arbitrarily banning you, but people repeatedly reporting your tweets. The option is right there, and aptly called "Uses the reply function to spam".
Thanks for sharing!