How to bulk text in 2010

I am attempting to organize 15+ years of notes into Bear. While reviewing untagged notes I came across this gem. I believe this was around September 2010.

SMS Campaign Notes

• http://www.motomessage.com/pricing/
• http://www.expresstext.net/
• https://www.textmarks.com/
• http://www.eztexting.com/
• http://www.mobilesmsmarketing.com/
• http://www.textsmsmarketing.com/ Flat rates per number of texts
• http://www.golivemobile.com/ Don’t provided pricing, or clearly define what they do
• http://www.optit.com/ Per message or Unlimited/per-user pricing
• http://www.callfire.com/ Developer-centric
• http://www.clickatell.com/pricing/pricing_wizard.php Pricing wizard on page
• http://www.boomtext.com/ The absolute worst
• http://www.twilio.com/pricing/ Flat rate, no nonsense - not available just yet

I was researching options for bulk texting. Twilio was the up-and-comer that I wanted to use, but wasn’t quite available in the timeframe I needed. If I remember correctly we went with OptIt.

Some of these links are broken. Others have pivoted or niched down. OptIt’s website looks unchanged. Twilio is what I would use today.

But before that, I’d question the effectiveness of a bulk texting campaign. It was novel at the time. But now my default reply to these requests is STOP.