Category Archives: Tips, Tricks & Sample Code

Authy Delivers Two-Factor Authentication Security in Minutes With Twilio SMS

Daniel Palacio decided to found Authy in the spring of 2011 following an onslaught of headline-making password breaches. “People’s accounts were compromised, their e-mails and photos stolen, their social profiles spammed, and their bank accounts drained,” he recalled. As a … Continue reading →

Posted by Kyle Kelly-Yahner on October 29, 2012 Tagged , , , , ,

Two-Factor Authentication ASP.NET MVC 4 Registration with Twilio SMS

This is a guest post by Long Le, a .NET Enterprise Architect and Solutions Architect at Computer Sciences Corporation. Originally posted on Long’s personal blog found here, Long is an avid blogger and a serious Modern Warfare 3 Gamer. Make … Continue reading →

Posted by Kyle Kelly-Yahner on October 10, 2012 Tagged , , , ,

Test Before Shipping with the Twilio Test Toolkit

Meet Jack Nichols who is the founder of CareTrio, a startup building better tools to help families care for elderly parents. Jack built a great test toolkit for your Twilio apps, that doesn’t use any of your Twilio minutes – … Continue reading →

Posted by Kyle Kelly-Yahner on October 3, 2012 Tagged , ,

Get Started with Twilio Voice: Connect Call to Second Person Screencast

We’re back again with the third installment of our Twilio Voice Quickstart series. In this screencast, Jon Gottfried shows you how to connect a caller to a second person or, in Jon’s example, a second “real monkey.” Walk through how … Continue reading →

Posted by Kyle Kelly-Yahner on September 27, 2012 Tagged ,

Building a Real-time SMS Voting App Part 1: Node.js & CouchDB

This is the first in a four-part series of blog posts on building a real-time SMS and voice voting application using Node.js. In part one, we will create the Node.js application, set-up the CouchDB database and connect everything to Twilio … Continue reading →

Posted by Carter Rabasa on September 18, 2012 Tagged , , , , , , , , ,

How to Initiate Long Running Tasks in IVR Systems

When Twilio makes a request to your application, we expect it to return a response in no more than 15 seconds. But there are plenty of scenarios where your app might need a bit more time than that. Scenarios like … Continue reading →

Posted by Devin Rader on September 13, 2012 Tagged , ,

Twilio Queue: Building a Call Queue Metrics Dashboard

Whether you’re running a call center, just a small office, or have to deal with all of the incoming calls for an event one night, putting people on hold (aka call queuing) is important, but often a difficult technical process. … Continue reading →

Posted by Devin Rader on September 7, 2012 Tagged , , , ,

Generate Simple Twilio Apps with TwiML Builder

Developer and DOer Matthew McConnell thought it would be helpful to have a click, drag and drop UI to make TwiML documents. So one weekend he built it – meet TwiML Builder, an handy tool that let’s you build, host … Continue reading →

Posted by Kyle Kelly-Yahner on August 24, 2012 Tagged ,

Get Started with Twilio Voice: Say a Message & Greet Caller By Name Quickstart Screencasts

We recently published the final two PHP SMS Quickstart Screencasts in our Twilio SMS Quickstart series, and now it’s time to get started with Twilio Voice. These two new screencasts kick off our Voice Quickstart series, providing an easy, visual way … Continue reading →

Posted by Jonathan Gottfried on August 23, 2012 Tagged , , ,