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At Twilio, it’s important for us to share when there are changes to phone numbers that may affect you. This change is relevant to anyone who provisions regulated phone numbers via the IncomingPhoneNumbers provisioning API.
On February 12, 2020, when you provision new phone numbers through the /IncomingPhoneNumbers API, you will be required to include the proper documentation for regulated phone numbers. API calls to provision phone numbers that do not include a valid BundleSID / IdentitySID will fail with error code 21649. We will send you multiple communications to prepare you for this change. If you are using Console, this will not result in a change.
Additionally, there will be a brownout on January 15, 2020, during which the BundleSID / IdentitySID parameter will be changed from optional to mandatory for the IncomingPhoneNumbers API to ensure all of our customers are prepared for the February …
SIGNAL, Twilio’s annual customer and developer conference, is coming up May 20-21 at Moscone West in San Francisco, and our call for papers is open now through January 31, for people interested in doing a breakout session.
SIGNAL breakout sessions show the power of communications implemented into everyday human interactions. For two days, speakers will have the chance to present to an audience of developers and business leaders who are interested in improving customer engagement.
People attending are looking to learn how to move their skill set, business or community to the next level by using communications.
Interested in speaking? This is what you need to know:
We’re looking for three types of sessions:
- Talk (~30 min) Educate the audience on your experiences, best practices and thought leadership on how to communicate and engage with your customers.
- In-depth technical workshop (~60 min) Dig deep into developing and deploying communication …
Welcome to the Twilio Startups 7 (TS7, for short) where we feature exciting founders from around the world to share their inspiring entrepreneurial journeys through seven quickfire questions.
Today we would like to introduce you to Kemdi Ebi of Versus. Read on to learn more about how they built their international startup to help businesses gain actionable insights from big data. Check out their tips on hiring the right developer quickly, why finding investors is like finding a life partner, and taking calculated business risks, all while building a successful data company.
- Company Name: Versus
- Founder Name: Kemdi Ebi
- Industry: Software/Big Data & Analytics/Market Research
- Stage/Funding: Seed
- Location: Lagos, Nigeria, London, UK & Washington DC, USA
From the founder of Versus
We reached out to Versus to get insight into how they launched an international startup and what they’ve learned along the way.
Describe your company in …
Today we are excited to announce the new version of the Phone Number Compliance APIs (v2), now in Beta. With the migration to the RC APIs, Twilio is making phone number provisioning a lot easier in regulated countries.
As you may know, to provision regulated phone numbers, you must follow local requirements of a country or territory, providing End-User information and Supporting Documents. Using the Regulatory Compliance APIs, you can view each country’s telecom requirements using Twilio’s Regulations API. End-Users, Supporting Documents, and Addresses are all accessible via our Public REST API or in the Console; numbers are assigned to follow a country or territory’s telecom Regulations.
Here’s a summary of why we’re introducing these changes, what is changing, and how this can benefit you.
Why does this matter?
Regulatory compliance is all about Knowing Your Customer (KYC) – many countries' and territories’ telecom regulators want to know the …
At Twilio, it’s important for us to share when there are changes to phone numbers that may affect you. There is an upcoming change for all Philippines local numbers in Metro Manila and neighboring areas bearing the 02 area code. If you have provisioned phone numbers in the 02 area code, you will receive email communications about this change.
Starting October 6, 2019, between 12:01 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. Philippine Standard Time (PST) / October 5, 4:01 to 9:00 p.m. Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), all Philippines local numbers in the Metro Manila neighboring areas bearing the 02 area code will change from 7 to 8 digits in length (or from 10 to 11 digits if you count the country code of +63).
The new 8-digit local numbering plan is the result of new regulations implemented by the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) in the Philippines.
Every Twilio +632 phone number will …
Regulatory Compliance (RC) requirements for phone numbers have increased worldwide. We have been working with regulators to ensure that phone numbers you provision are in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations. As part of this engagement, we made an important change to the Twilio Phone Number Provisioning API.
You should have received email communications about this change if you use this API for phone numbers outside the US and Canada. To reiterate:
Starting September 10, 2019, the Phone Number Provisioning API will require you to provide an address for any new regulated number you provision. If you don’t include a valid address, you will receive error code 21631.
You can find address requirements for the country where you are provisioning numbers on our Phone Number Regulations page.
What’s Changing with the Twilio Phone Number Provisioning API?
Previously, address requirements were not enforced through the API. You …
In the following video, Steve Tingiris, Founder and "chief dabbler" of Dabble Lab and Twilio Champion chatted with Nico Acosta, Director of Product for Autopilot at Twilio to talk about building digital assistants with Twilio Autopilot. Enjoy the interview transcript and watch the video for a deeper look at the tech.
The following interview can also be found on the Dabble Lab Youtube channel.
You can learn more about joining Steve and a community of supportive developers on the Twilio Champions page.
Introducing Nico Acosta & Twilio Autopilot
Steve: Hey, this is Steve with Dabble Lab, and this is another episode of Dabble With Experts. And today, I'm joined by Nico Acosta, who is the Director of Product and Engineering for Twilio Autopilot, and I've had the good fortune to work with Nico and Autopilot for a little bit, and so, today we get a chance to …
In this interview, Michael Carpenter from Twilio's Voice Insights team sat down with Corey Weathers, a Developer Evangelist at Twilio to talk about Voice Insights. We hope you enjoy this interview transcript.
The following interview took place August 6th, 2019 at Twilio's SIGNAL conference at Moscone West in San Francisco, California. It previously aired on our SIGNAL TV broadcast over on Twitch.tv/Twilio.
You can also find this interview on Youtube on Twilio's channel.
Meet Michael Carpenter
Corey: What's up, friends. We are back. Okay, so we just had some amazing, amazing, amazing interviews. We had a phenomenal conversation, right, with Andres. Right? From the Product Management Team. Super fun, super exciting. Andres was hanging out. We had Chris earlier. We had some other folks coming and hanging out with us. Now we get to welcome Michael Carpenter from the Voice Insights team. Welcome to the stream, Bud. …
In this interview, Twilio's Andres Jaan Tack sits down with Corey Weathers to talk about Twilio's launch of Conversations. We hope you enjoy this interview transcript.
The following interview took place August 6th, 2019 at Twilio's SIGNAL conference at Moscone West in San Francisco, California. It previously aired on our SIGNAL TV broadcast over on Twitch.tv/Twilio.
You can also find this interview on Youtube on Twilio's channel.
Meet Andres Jaan Tack
Corey: Hey, what's up, friends? Super excited to be back with you. Listen, welcome back to SIGNAL TV. It's your boy Corey Hurricane Weathers back here in the building. We're hanging out with Twilions again. We've been having some fun throughout the day. We've got more live interviews, more live demos set up for you. And so before I continue I gotta say "welcome" to the latest guest. This is Andres. Hi Andres good to see …
In this interview, Tristan Wiley from Twitch sits down with Lizzie Siegle from Twilio to talk about Tristan's Twitch extension that allows viewers to call a streamer via Twilio. We hope you enjoy this interview transcript.
The following interview took place August 6th, 2019 at Twilio's SIGNAL conference at Moscone West in San Francisco, California. It previously aired on our SIGNAL TV broadcast over on Twitch.tv/Twilio.
Meet Twilio Champion Tristan Wiley from Twitch
Lizzie: Hi, everyone. Welcome back to SIGNAL TV. I'm Lizzie. Again, I'm a developer evangelist here at Twilio and I am beyond excited to welcome an MHacks organizer, rising junior at the University of Buffalo, an organizer of UB Hacking, a Twitch Developer Relations Intern, Twilio Champion and so much more, Tristan Wiley.
Tristan: Hello. Hi. Hi, everybody. Hi, everyone in chat. I know some of you. Thanks for stopping by.
Lizzie: Yes. So, what is …