The internet gets turned off. Your voice shouldn't.
A short statement of what we believe and what we refuse.
In 2025 the internet was deliberately switched off 313 times, across 52 countries, with a combined economic cost of $19.7 billion. Most of those shutdowns landed on protests, elections, and moments of political crisis. That is not a coincidence.
Twitter was born on SMS. The 140-character limit came from the 160-byte envelope of an SMS packet. You sent a text to 40404, it appeared on the web. Then Twitter climbed to the cloud, got data-hungry, and retired the SMS gateway in 2020. The phone got left behind.
OffX rebuilds that bridge. We are not replacing X and not forking it. We just make sure the phone you already hold can still post to it when the rest of the stack breaks.
What we believe
- If a journalist can't publish, atrocities become rumors. If a citizen can't report, a protest becomes a crime. Expression is infrastructure, not a nice-to-have.
- Every piece of our stack should fall back to the oldest working layer: first the internet, then SMS, eventually satellite. Features come after.
- Every OffX tweet ends with Via @OffXorg. Readers should know the channel. We are not hiding.
- We store the minimum we need to run the service: your phone number, your X OAuth tokens, a short log of posts we made for you. We do not sell, share, or analyze your messages.
What we refuse
- No sponsored tweets, not now, not ever. Paid content turns this into an ad channel and it stops being useful.
- No closed source. The webhook handler, the content filter, the rate limits are all public. The code is there, read it.
- No vague promises. We cannot guarantee SMS survives every shutdown. Iran cut SMS too during the January 2026 blackout. We will say this out loud before anyone is disappointed.
How we stay alive
OffX is a non-profit. Funding comes from developer fees on a Solana token, $OFFX. Every swap of the token routes a fraction to our on-chain treasury, which pays the Twilio bill, the X API bill, the domain, and the server. When the treasury runs out, OffX shuts down. We will tell you before it does.
No venture money. No data for sale. No business model waiting at the end of the tunnel.