Monthly Archives: September 2010

Twilio Meetup NYC Recap – Twitio.tw

Tuesday night, the great folks over at Hashable opened their offices to host the third Twilio Meetup in NYC. If you haven’t heard of them, they’re worth checking out. Twilio NYC Our first two meetups in NYC happened in a … Continue reading →

Posted by John Britton on September 30, 2010 Tagged , , ,

Announcing Twilio Fund: $250,000 for Twilio Powered Startups

Today is a pretty kick ass day for the Twilio development community, because 500Startups has announced a $250,000 investment in our ecosystem of awesome Twilio-powered startups. From the 500 Startups blog: Today we’re excited to announce Twilio Fund, a $250,000 micro-fund … Continue reading →

Posted by Danielle Morrill on September 23, 2010 Tagged , , ,

Startup Weekend Twin Cities: A Overwhelming Success

Last week I issued a challenge to the participants of StartupWeekend Twin Cities. Now that the event is complete, I can enthusiastically declare that the challenge was met. It was a great event with great teams and great results. This … Continue reading →

Posted by John Sheehan on September 22, 2010 Tagged , , ,

Guest Post: Albert Wenger on the Union Square Ventures Contest

We’ve partnered with Union Square Ventures, who are investors in Twilio, to give one developer the opportunity to travel to New York City to meet with Fred Wilson, Albert Wenger, and Brad Burnham.  The three partners of Union Square Ventures … Continue reading →

Posted by twilio on September 21, 2010 Tagged , , , , , , , , ,

Build your business with Twilio and win a meeting with Union Square Ventures (ends 9/27)

We've got a special treat for Twilio developers who love a good contest.   You have two weeks to submit your Twilio-powered business and you could win a trip to New York City to have lunch with Fred Wilson, Albert … Continue reading →

Posted by twilio on September 20, 2010 Tagged

Menuism.com Builds Simple Send-To-Phone Feature in Hours with Twilio

Justin Chen dropped us a note, letting us know his company built a simple “send to phone” feature into their restaurant listings in just a couple hours. Menuism.com, which has over 500K visitors each month according to Compete.com, is a personal … Continue reading →

Posted by Danielle Morrill on Tagged , , ,

Congratulations Jack Danger Canty, You've Won The Twilio New API Contest!

The TwilioContactable rubygem is a library of code that allows Ruby developers to automate the validation of phone numbers both by voice and SMS. This gem provides drop-in support to existing Rails/Sinatra/Rack apps allowing developers to ensure that their users, … Continue reading →

Posted by John Sheehan on September 17, 2010 Tagged , ,

Win lunch with Albert, Fred and Brad from Union Square Ventures

It has been an exciting past couple weeks here at Twilio with the new API rolling out and yesterday’s lower pricing announcement. The Twilio community is as fired up as we’ve ever seen and we wanted to put together the … Continue reading →

Posted by John Sheehan on September 15, 2010 Tagged , , , , , , , ,

New Lower Pricing for Twilio Voice, Save 29% on Average

We have reduced our voice API prices today, and we’re excited to announce that customers will save 29% on average.  This new pricing model impacts inbound calls to Twilio phone numbers, as well as outbound calls to U.S. and Canadian … Continue reading →

Posted by Danielle Morrill on September 14, 2010 Tagged , , ,