Monthly Archives: January 2012

Match.com Lets Online Daters Call or Text Message Without Revealing Their Phone Numbers

The popular online dating service gives subscribers virtual phone numbers they can use to call and text potential dates. Online dating is a competitive market. The turnover rate is inevitably high, because actually giving customers the thing that you’re selling … Continue reading

Posted by Dan Kaplan on January 23, 2012 Tagged ,

Undergrad Doers Take Aim At SOPA and PIPA at PennApps

PennApps, the bi-annual tradition for engineering’s best and brightest students across the Eastern Seaboard, came to a close Sunday afternoon with top tier weekend hacks. Packed tight in the University of Pennsylvania Towne Building, bleary-eyed students gathered from top universities including … Continue reading

Posted by Rob Spectre on January 20, 2012 Tagged

Track Web and Phone Leads with Call Tracking Metrics and HubSpot

A Twilio-powered call tracking service links your web leads with your phone leads This week our friends at Captico announced a new integration with HubSpot, a popular marketing automation tool for attracting and converting inbound leads. The integration syncs Captico’s Call Tracking … Continue reading

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Twilio Engineering: Writing Effective Documentation

The Twilio engineering team recently shared a new blog post on the importance of detailed documentation. We run into the same issues any company does building an API and here we share some tips we follow to make sure we … Continue reading

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Twilio Launches Voice-Enabled Phone Numbers in Five European Countries

We’re very happy to announce that Twilio Voice is now available in Austria, Denmark, France, Ireland, and Poland. Thank you to the beta customers who provided valuable feedback and support. This is a huge step into supporting our European customers … Continue reading

Posted by Meghan Murphy on January 19, 2012 Tagged ,

Twilio Expands UK Capabilities with SMS Launch

Last October we opened our UK office in support of our European developers and launched Twilio Voice for the UK. Today we’re very happy to ship Twilio SMS into the hands of our UK customers, offering them Twilio-powered domestic text … Continue reading

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Coding a Solution for Youth in Technology

Can the tech industry help underprivileged and disconnected youth find summer jobs? United States Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra intends to find out. On Tuesday at a special event held at Twilio’s San Francisco headquarters, Chopra announced three tech-focused initiatives to support … Continue reading

Posted by Elise Ackerman on January 18, 2012

Join Twilio at the WebVisions Hackathon and Conference

Join us for WebVisions in New York starting tomorrow for a huge list of great talks, sessions and workshops, all kicking off with a hackathon for social good. Developer Evangelist Jack Aboutboul will be representing Twilio during the hackathon and … Continue reading

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Protesting SOPA and PIPA: Call Your Representative Now

There are two proposed pieces of legislation in motion right now in Congress that threaten our free and democratic Internet, and infringe on our basic rights. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and companion legislation Protect IP Act (PIPA) could … Continue reading

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