What Is Twilio? SMS and Voice API's explained

What is Twilio? How do you use it and what kind of business problems does it actually solve? That's what we're answering in todays video.
*GIVEAWAY*
www.twil.io/challenge
Head over to www.twil.io/challenge to get started and use code BUILDNOW for $20 credit for your first app.
*What is Twilio*
Twilio solves the issue of communicating with your customers, making sure that journey is as seamless and reliable as possible. They enable SMS, Voice, Chat, and Email functionality at scale. They also have a nifty call center platform called Flex (built with React) that's a massive time saver for any of your needs there. The API's are also developer first, allowing you to fully customize and build upon a solid foundation of functionality.
*Why I took on Twilio as a sponsor*
Twilio are a solid company and they solve a really difficult problem. Sending SMS and email at scale is hard. Creating architecture that supports that, also hard. Their developer friendly API's make building solutions to those problems much easier than they should be.
I also had the pleasure of working with some of the Twilio team at Devrelcon 2021. The Japanese arm of Twilio were an absolute delight to work with, and exemplified everything I'd want in a brand i'm attaching my name to.
*Twilio Quest*
www.twilio.com/quest
Seriously one of the coolest ways to learn an API.
*Customer Journeys*
www.twilio.com/customers
Lyft, Airbnb and a Stranger things ft Twilio mashup. Some really good examples of where Twilio has come in clutch.
0:00 Intro
0:38 What is Twilio?
2:25 Case Studies
6:42 Sending an SMS
8:37 Making a Voice call
12:02 Giveaway!
14:18 Twilio Quest

[@dotterel]

Miss your videos, bro. Look forward to seeing you upload this year!

[@dnlbellfield]

loved this!!

[@aryalanjewar400]

You are very informative

[@jasonshen]

nice to see some one from new zealand, nice video btw bro

[@marthamurugi8221]

Yes, I could use Twilio for my non-programming roles like marketing. Any challenges that could extend to African countries? Thank you so much for this review.

[@josephasong2096]

This is awesome! 👍🏻

[@MattKander]

Thanks Seph 😉

[@KARAN-mh2pe]

The geo permission thing could be applied for the sms one right? If u had given permission to NZ

[@CheeriousGeorge]

at 8:24 -- texting from an Arkansas number eh? niiiiiiiice.

[@estebangomez1823]

Thanks for the video, do you have a Video or document for very beginners?

[@MattKander]

You’re welcome! I’d recommend checking out Twilio quest as your first point of contact :-)

[@BillionMoonshots]

great!!

[@killiankavo4821]

Good video

[@priyansh851]

Nice video. I have few questions What about pricing? Can I make multiple calls at a time from my own custom software after integrate the twillio? Is multiple SIP numbers possible? if not, then what is the solution? Thanks in advance.

[@manuelaraica3216]

I have been using Twilio for basic sms, integration with Google Voice, and basic forwarding and auto attendant. You will be surprise how affordable it is. I even have a couple of dedicated numbers in my lab just for testing. I also use Google Admin Voice but it is way more expensive. Give Twilio a chance and you will be always please.

[@TTinfoz]

Did you get an answer or discover anything?

[@maxxyeg4311]

Thank you for the video. Is Twilio sponsoring this video? I am just trying to figure out is this an ad for Twilio or an objective explainer.

[@captglasspac]

If dude wanted to look objective, maybe he shouldn't have worn a Twilio t-shirt for the video.

[@yumaautospa793]

How does this compare to google voice?

[@tarun_reddy]

Is this compatible with swift/iOS

[@rotimijosephine4272]

I want to ask, what app did you use for the coding?

[@eliaspfeffer]

visual studio code

[@Gaurav.YourDedicatedAssistant]

Can anyone give me an Idea if I just need one USA number that forwards SMS and the calls to my Indian number then how much this is gonna cost me per month? Thanks in advance.

[@WingoTribe704]

Getting stalking msgs from a twillio number

[@jacobwonder6735]

Elevation Church uses this platform!! I’m sure they send millions of texts a year with it.

[@lucienkahozi3314]

Thank you for the tutorial, but you're profile picture is no serious

[@howard927]

to expensive bro

[@pratikmane8241]

Haha rickroll

[@slipperyslope3912]

This is worse than Shopify. If I need to code it, why would I pay a service? I'll code it instead and own the service myself.

[@greggchaffin1596]

You can literally say that about anything then… The code is established as a guide/template. No two environments are the same so you can “code” to customize to the needs of your stack.

[@mugambajulius2530]

Yes

[@2Chaoslord]

Good luck storing a whole contact center on premise 😂

[@emreaksu163]

İftiralaar, iftiralar.

[@elonmusk45]

Dayı sen hayırdır savaş hocama laf atıyon

[@rustcohle9134]

Ahhahaha