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Getting Started Placing Outbound Calls with Twilio Elastic SIP Trunking and FreeSWITCH
A couple of weeks ago we announced the public beta of Elastic SIP Trunking, a new way to connect your SIP gear to the world…Full Article
How to Build a Real Time MMS Photostream with Twilio and Socket.IO
Since our launch a few weeks ago of Twilio MMS, your friendly neighborhood devangel crew has been busy having a barrel of monkeys building sick…Full Article
How To Build Your Own MMS Enabled Motion Activated Security Camera With Linux, Python and S3
Holy biscuits was last week a barrel of monkeys. All of us at Twilio have had a beastly boatload of fun seeing the stuff you’ve…Full Article
How To Build A Mustached Message Service With Twilio MMS And Python
All of us at Twilio are over the moon by the possibilities now unlocked by the availability of MMS on US phone numbers. We know…Full Article
Using Natural Language Processing for Better SMS Interfaces Using Twilio and Python’s TextBlob
The International Telecommunications Union, the telecom agency for the United Nations, recently released some data suggesting for every 100 people on Planet Earth, 96 of…Full Article
The Road Coders Survival Kit
Your friendly neighborhood Twilio developer evangelism crew racks up a fair amount of road time around the world in our continuing mission to see the…Full Article
Unit Testing Your Twilio App Using Python’s Flask and Nose
It happens every time. You fire up your editor. The Twilio app spits off your fingers, deftly wielding the TwiML primitives you know to build…Full Article
Replacing Hold Music With New York Times Headlines
So I was straight chillin’ on the Internet, fixing to moderate another troll post on my favorite Justin Bieber fan forum, when my buddy Amit…Full Article
For #BostonMarathon, A Way to Call Your Family via Your Browser
Our hearts go out to anyone touched by today’s tragedy. We know cell service has been up and down with cellular traffic so put together…Full Article
Advancing Business Communications
Thank you all very much for the warm congratulations and well wishes following the coverage on Twilio and AT&T’s Advanced Communication Suite, on Techcrunch and…Full Article
How To Tell A Story With Code
Whether you are in front of a packed room of hackers, a huddled group on a trade show floor or a sweaty basement filled with…Full Article
Instant Satisfaction with Twilio and Box
You may remember our Twilio and Box mashup contest from last year. Since then, we’ve all been hard at work bringing instant satisfaction to the…Full Article
hackNY Raises The Bar Again For Student Hackathons
Occupying New York University once more, hackNY students again raised the bar for student hackathons this weekend. With the fifth installment of their long running…Full Article
Trying To Save The World In A Weekend, Penn Students "Hack The Change"
The Philadelphia tech scene assembled late in the afternoon last Friday with a spectacular ambition – change the world in a single weekend. Dubbing the…Full Article
Banters Adds Twilio-Powered Siri Integration with Relaunch
Brooklyn darlings Banters just relaunched their conversation sharing app and website with a new name, a fresh coat of paint and a tasty Twilio integration that…Full Article
Making an SMS Birthday Card with Python and Flask
My friend Sonya turned 30 this past weekend and I wanted to whip up something heartfelt and crafty to herald the glorious conclusion of her…Full Article
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…Full Article
Hack Hatched At Twilio Conference Grows Into Full Business
What began as a prize-winning hack at Twilio Conference enters a promising beta this week as Billy Coover and Barry Harkness from SideBox announce their…Full Article
Siri Developer Contest Produces a Trio of Tasty Hacks
A few weeks ago we let loose our developer community on Siri, the iPhone 4S virtually assisting sensation that has been the subject of several…Full Article
Hack Til You Drop With Our Shopified Holiday Developer Contest
With barely enough time to recover from your tryptophan-induced Turkey Day coma, the holiday shopping season is already upon us. Black Friday sales grabbed big…Full Article
Hack Til You Drop With Our Shopified Holiday Developer Contest
With barely enough time to recover from your tryptophan-induced Turkey Day coma, the holiday shopping season is already upon us. Black Friday sales grabbed big…Full Article
Set Your Receivers To Boost – This Is London Calling
Just over three weeks ago, Twilio announced our expansion into Europe and the demand is positively rabid. Twilio phone numbers in the United Kingdom has…Full Article
New Twilio Developer Contest: Set Your Receivers To Boost – This Is London Calling
Just over three weeks ago, Twilio announced our expansion into Europe and the demand is positively rabid. Twilio phone numbers in the United Kingdom has…Full Article
Wave Accounting Wins Developer Contest With Slick Presence Add-on
Two weeks ago we welcomed the Twilio developer community to compete in a free-form contest using Twilio Presence, and you responded with typical alacrity. Presence…Full Article
Get Siri-ous with Twilio
Since the iPhone 4S dropped, developers have set themselves immediately to the task of twisting Siri to their own ends. the voice-based personal assistant that…Full Article
MemoryAide Connects You To Voice and SMS Broadcasting For Contest Glory
Ever since our release at Twilio Conference, developers are dusting off old Twilio hacks with Twilio Connect to remove the worry of variable usage costs from operating…Full Article
Get Wired In With Twilio Presence
Hot off the heels of our Twilio Connect contest, this week we’re taking our contests realtime with Twilio Presence. We launched this feature for Twilio…Full Article
Get Wired In With Twilio Presence
Hot off the heels of our Twilio Connect contest, this week we’re taking our contests realtime with Twilio Presence. We launched this feature for Twilio…Full Article
Robert Levy Wins Windows 8 Contest With Easy SMS Sharing
Three weeks ago we asked the Twilio developer community to dance on the bleeding edge with a contest focused on Windows 8. You answered with…Full Article
Free Your App With The Twilio Connect Free-For-All
Two weeks ago all of us at Twilio HQ were very excited to unveil Twilio Connect, the hotly anticipated, oft-requested ability to let your users…Full Article
New Developer Contest: Free Your App With The Twilio Connect Free-For-All
Two weeks ago all of us at Twilio HQ were very excited to unveil Twilio Connect, the hotly anticipated, oft-requested ability to let your users…Full Article
College Students Change The Hackathon Game At PennApps
Autumn was signaling its arrival in Philadelphia two weeks ago with an Eastern cold snap, the turning of the leaves and the sound of hustling…Full Article
Twilio and Windows 8: Your Ticket to a Samsung Tablet
Last week in Anaheim Microsoft launched the next generation of Windows-based desktop and tablet applications with the introduction of Windows 8, Metro and Windows Runtime.…Full Article
Introducing Rob Spectre, An Evangelist With A Story To Tell
I’m Rob and I live in Brooklyn, New York. I just joined as a Developer Evangelist at Twilio, and I’d like to tell you a…Full Article
SideBox Takes First Place By Making It Rain With Twilio Client
The bar for our bi-weekly developer contest continues to rise as SideBox takes the top prize. The entry from co-founders Billy Coover and Barry Harkness…Full Article
New Developer Contest: Twilio First Aid for Your Fitness
Can telephony and text messages serve as a band aid for your personal health? We want to find out with this week’s developer contest where…Full Article
New Developer Contest: Twilio First Aid for Your Fitness
Can telephony and text messages serve as a band aid for your personal health? We want to find out with this week’s developer contest where…Full Article
MOM Integrates SMS Text Messaging With EMRs To Boost Compliance
Across the United States, it can be hard to find a common fixture in the physician’s office. With regulations and requirements differing from city to…Full Article
Announcing the Winners of the Twilio and Box Developer Contest
A couple weeks ago we partnered with our friends at cloud sharing service Box for a mashup developer contest, and we were yet again stunned by…Full Article
A Picture Perfect Photo Hack Day For Twilio
The first ever Photo Hack Day was held in New York City this past weekend and the event made a splash in the city with…Full Article