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Introducing New Phone Numbers Management in the Twilio Account Portal
Programmable phone numbers for SMS, MMS and Voice are at the core of Twilio’s platform. For a new customer, the first interactions in the Account Portal are often the purchase and configuration of a...
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Circly Fights Cancer With Community: Building A Support System With Twilio
If cancer were a person, I’d punch it in the face. But, it turns out that’s neither a viable method of treatment, or a fight that has any chance of actually taking place. One thing that does help...
View ArticleFreshdesk Breaks Down Wisby’s Barriers To Customer Service with Twilio
Wisby had the drive, the customer support team, and the resources in place to deliver awesome customer service. But, there were two sizeable barriers they had to overcome: time and distance. Namely,...
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Building A Twilio-Powered IVR Using Haskell
Steve Kollmansberger (right) is a renaissance man, shipping code and flying planes in the Pacific Northwest. It’s not uncommon to have a hobby or discipline outside of coding, it’s always interesting...
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Keeping Closer Tabs on Your Numbers with Twilio Monitor
Phone numbers are like any business inventory. If not properly managed, problems can snowball. Think about what happens when a number is mysteriously misconfigured and stops working; or you ended up...
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Create a Standalone Voicemail Using Java and Twilio
Why is receiving voicemails still such a pain in 2015? With landlines you need to deal with overpriced and outdated hardware. On mobile phones you need to call a number, enter a password, and sift...
View ArticleWelkin Health Helps Caregivers Communicate With Twilio
Care coordinators should spend more time on patient care, and less time searching for phone numbers. That’s Chase Hensel’s argument, and his mission for Welkin Health. It seemed odd to Chase that the...
View ArticleCrafting A Customer Experience: Zendesk Rolls Out Advanced Voice
A good customer support call is like an espresso shot – short, sweet, and carefully crafted. There’s no joy to be had in getting lost in a phone tree, or toiling on hold, no matter what side of the...
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Introducing Volume Pricing For Recording Storage
Today, we are happy to introduce volume pricing for call recording storage. This means that, as your volume grows, you will be charged less and less per minute to store recordings. Don’t worry if your...
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EmoPhone: How To Build A Twilio-Powered IVR Using PHP and ngrok
Before cell phones, there were only landline phones. In high school, I frequently called the person I had a crush on at home. Calling a semi-private phone number to have private conversations was...
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Triggering SMS And Voice Notifications For IoT Devices
People throw around the term “the internet of things” as if there’s an internet essence in all devices that you unlock via secret code. The truth is connecting one device to another and building a...
View ArticleOne HTTP Request From Stardom: How Alan Shreve Built ngrok Using Go
Learning a new programming language is as fun as it is challenging. You’ve probably used all sorts of techniques to learn from quickstarts to cloning to banging your head against a manual. If I may...
View ArticleExchange Solutions Builds An IVR Platform For Personal Customer Support, Runs...
A few national retailers are all vying for a limited pool of customers. The pressure to set themselves apart from their competitors is higher than ever. The only way to do that is by giving customers a...
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NBC News Builds Election Confessions With Twilio
My old college roommate has some pretty salient thoughts about Bernie Sanders. Also, my Mom’s coworker says she has a fool-proof plan to balance the budget. This is what my Facebook feed looks like in...
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Building A Phone Verification System With Twilio Voice, Java, and Yext
Pull on the thread of user verification options and it will unravel. You’ll be on page 51 of your Google Search when you realize your looking at a user verification platform that wants to you verify...
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VoiceBase Unlocks “Big Voice” To Deliver A Better Customer Experience
One of my co-workers, Devin Rader, had a fantastic quote about the old “data-driven” trope that I will paraphrase and potentially butcher. He said “Data doesn’t drive that car, I’m driving the car, but...
View ArticleAnnouncing Caller ID Name Lookup
As we all know, first impressions are everything. That’s why having accurate information about who’s on the other end of a phone call or message exchange is so important. Today, we’re excited to...
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The App That Shouldn’t Exist: PulledOver Strives To Deliver Transparency In...
Matt can’t remember the exact moment he knew he needed to build PulledOver. At first, hearing news that another person of color had been killed during a routine traffic stop felt like a new and fresh...
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What Powers The On-Demand Economy? A Talk With Chelsea Rustrum
Marketplaces are growing exponentially and popping up online in every sector. When you go to work, you share a Lyft or Uber. If you need a window replaced, you might call a Taskrabbit. If you want to...
View ArticleCoding The Way To A Human Right: Human Utility Gives Underserved Communities...
When Tiffani Bell put her number on Human Utility’s website (formerly known as The Detroit Water Project), she received calls at 5am PST almost every morning from Detroit residents wanting an answer...
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