Category Archives: Twilio Features

Using Google Glass, Twilio, Ruby, and Sinatra to Send and Receive SMS Messages

Join the discussion on Hacker News! Myself and other developers have been giddy with glee at the recent release of Google Glass, one of the first largely available wearable computing platforms. After the Glass Foundry hackathons in January, I couldn’t … Continue reading →

Posted by Jonathan Gottfried on May 9, 2013 Tagged , , , ,

Day In The Life: Being a Twilio Senior Visual Designer

Twilio is hiring for a Senior Visual Designer.  We’re looking for someone for can think critically, design beautifully, and bring the story of cloud communication to life in an icon. You can find the job listing here. From wire-framing, to … Continue reading →

Posted by Kyle Kelly-Yahner on May 7, 2013 Tagged , ,

Customer Service Solutions with Twilio: Build Your Call Center Your Way

Throughout the years, we have identified that many of our customers are using us to power their customer service needs. Today, we are very excited to formally introduce Twilio for the call center market. Twilio gives you all of the … Continue reading →

Posted by twilio on May 1, 2013 Tagged , ,

HomeJoy Bringing Everyone Clean and Happy Homes, Powered by Twilio

When clutter inspires a startup, you get HomeJoy. Founding a startup from your home can get messy. For Adora Cheung and her brother Aaron, the mess they accumulated while working on one startup actually inspired them to found another Homejoy … Continue reading →

Posted by Kyle Kelly-Yahner on April 24, 2013 Tagged , , , ,

Twilio Fund Winner Profile: Babelverse Bridges Language Barriers with Twilio

Building Around The Language Barrier Phrasebooks, calls to friends who could act as language interpreters, and Google translate queries weren’t cutting it while developers Mayel and Josef were travelling abroad. The language barrier was getting the best of them and … Continue reading →

Posted by Kyle Kelly-Yahner on April 18, 2013 Tagged , , ,

Twilio Fund Winner Profile: Wedgies, Making Social Polling Easy and Fun w/ Twilio

“Wedgies are fun to give. And it’s fun to watch what happens after,” explains Jimmy Jacobson, co-founder of social polling service Wedgies. “But we aren’t talking about in real life wedgies, like you got in school.” Las Vegas based members, … Continue reading →

Posted by Kyle Kelly-Yahner on April 10, 2013 Tagged , ,

Twilio Teams Up With Nonprofits To Help Fight Human Trafficking

For human trafficking victims, the key to rescue is communication. We’ve teamed up with the Polaris Project, Thorn, and Salesforce.com to build a new avenue of rescue for victims. Victims and concerned citizens can text the Twilio-powered shortcode “BeFree” (233733) … Continue reading →

Posted by twilio on March 28, 2013 Tagged , , , ,

Trying Out SIP From Twilio Using FreeSWITCH

Twilio recently introduced the new <Sip> noun which lets you directly dial a SIP server from your Twilio app. But what if you don’t have a SIP server? In this post I’ll show you how you can set up and … Continue reading →

Posted by Devin Rader on March 19, 2013 Tagged , ,

Teach Your Old Box New Tricks: Introducing SIP from Twilio

Today, we are happy to announce <Sip> from Twilio, allowing companies to receive incoming calls by connecting Twilio to their existing SIP infrastructure. This new capability enables companies to quickly and easily modify their communications processes using the Web programming language … Continue reading →

Posted by twilio on March 18, 2013 Tagged , , , , ,