Monthly Archives: May 2010

Shane Jones Wins Twilio + Twitter Mashup Contest with 140Call

After much debate among the judges, its finally is time to announce the winner of the Twitter + Twilio mashup contest from a couple weeks back.  To fill you in, Twilio has a developer contest every week (or two) encouraging … Continue reading →

Posted by Danielle Morrill on May 17, 2010 Tagged , , , ,

Preventing Spam & Fraud with SMS Phone Verification

If you’ve used a service like Google Calendar that sends out reminders via SMS, you may recall that when you set up your mobile device to receive alerts, the application verified that you were the owner of the device. This … Continue reading →

Posted by John Sheehan on May 11, 2010 Tagged , , , ,

New Developer Contest: Mashup Twilio & Open311

On Thursday evening last week we brought together over 300 people passionate about open data and the future of government 2.0 to hear from thought leaders in the space.  Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson was the MC for the evening, and … Continue reading →

Posted by Danielle Morrill on May 10, 2010 Tagged , ,

Open 311 Developer Contest: May 10th – 23rd

As announced at our event at San Francisco City Hall last Thursday, Twilio has partnered with the City of San Francisco for a developer contest focused on innovation using the Open311 API and Twilio API to build apps and new … Continue reading →

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Discover Job Opportunities at Twilio – Interview with CTO Evan Cooke

Andrew Lee from One Third of My Life dropped by Twilio HQ to speak with Evan Cooke, CTO and cofounder of our company, about some of the job opportunities we have available.  In this candid 9 minute interview, Evan discusses … Continue reading →

Posted by twilio on May 7, 2010 Tagged , ,

Building a Twilio + Google Chrome Extension

We are currently running a contest with our friends on the Google Chrome Extension team at Google challenging developers to build extensions that include Twilio.  Developers have until 11:59pm this Sunday, May 9th, to submit their extensions for a chance … Continue reading →

Posted by will on May 6, 2010 Tagged , , , , , , ,

Join Twilio for Events in May

May is going to be a fabulous month, and we hope we’ll see you at some of the events we’re participating in across the United States.  We’ll be speaking, sponsoring, and hanging out and we’d love to meet you.  If … Continue reading →

Posted by Danielle Morrill on May 5, 2010 Tagged , , , ,

Simple Phone Verification with Twilio, PHP, MySQL and jQuery

See the most updated version of these instructions and sample code here. As more and more applications integrate with phones there is an increasing need to verify phone numbers to help prevent spam, fraud and other dubious activities. In these … Continue reading →

Posted by John Sheehan on May 4, 2010 Tagged , , , , ,