Twilio Programmable SMS Reviews

Twilio SMS is great for sending out notifications to inform our audience of upcoming deadlines and date extensions as they move through the application process. It is also good at sending out reminders that renewing members can review all of the available plans to find one that meets their needs and budget. Twilio should provide SMS and voice calling as a testing feature on the trial account which can really help people to be more convinced about its awesome services.

Twilio SMS is fantastic for anyone that wants their marketing or product to be more omnichannel. Meaning connecting with your customers on more than just email and social media which have become standard these days. On top of that, SMS marketing has insanely high open rates and due to that solid conversions, so it's a great tool for testing for direct e-commerce or selling things online to see if it produces an ROI.

Twilio is well-suited for Salesforce integrations, automated messaging, and rapid communication with leads. If you are frustrated with Salesforce's built-in messaging platform (LiveMessage), I would recommend implementing Twilio.

If text messaging is not a critical part of your operations, Twilio is not necessary. If you send fewer than 500 messages per month, you should probably stick with your messaging service through a mobile provider.

Twilio SMS is well suited for customer interaction in general, especially, as far as our company is concerned, when it comes to scheduling appointments, confirming client information, collecting pre-qualifying data, providing status updates and, overall, just adding an additional form of communication to make sure the process for our clients is as transparent and efficient as possible.

When you have a big list of users that get occasional text messages, Twilio is perfect. With Twilio's number pooling feature it makes implementing this a snap. However, if you need to frequently send texts to a big list, the cost is going to grow too rapidly for most business models and thus it is untenable.

Online business with a strong customer communication/contact focus.

Customer engagement is a great scenario for Twilio, for an application where someone needs a little handholding, but not a bunch. We have found that when they work with our development team they answer so many questions in minutes that we might have been mulling over and researching for days. Where Twilio wouldn't be appropriate, maybe when sending mass text messages just for the hell of it. Their messaging rates are a little high in the industry.

Twilio is perfect for transactional notifications where high deliverability and reliability trump cost. Inbound messaging is comprehensively covered so works well for scenarios where auto responses are necessary like a chat bot. Only available via the API so not helpful for one-off marketing campaigns, better to use a competitor like FireText if a non-technical team member needs to create a campaign. Copilot feature makes pooling US numbers very simple and user-friendly - easy to get around the 1 message per second and to ensure the same user is only reached from the same number. Copilot also enables international phone number pooling, choosing the nearest available number. Purchasing telephone numbers is very cheap (typically $1 per month per number) and easy - we've only had one time where they have run out of US numbers. International texts can be reasonably priced, especially in the US. Very expensive in the UK compared to some other competitors such as Voodoo SMS. Denmark and Aus oddly expensive. Generous discounts available for Y Combinator alumni with and ongoing discount if you have the volumes. Live reporting is difficult to filter and slow to use. Live texts typically do not appear until at least 2 minutes after sent. Support is fantastic, although good luck getting someone on the phone!

Use Twilio any time you need to send automated text messages or voice messages. I'm sure there are other notification types that are useful too.

Twilio works well for initiating chat applications. It works well for providing trackable phone numbers to enhance the SEO and conversions on your website. Twilio numbers offer programmable voice, text, video, chat, and fax capabilities which makes for a lot of very versatile features that you may not have with a landline or mobile number.

You obviously don't want to rely on Twilio for making emergency calls, because, although their up-time is extremely good, they are susceptible to internet outages.

I'd certainly recommend if they have the ability to write code or have someone who can. But if they don't, there isn't really a user interface to send text messages.

Twilio is great for sending text messages from websites, and from apps and services. I use it to alert me when scheduled jobs don't happen, as well as to alert my customers when certain actions are taken in their website that they want immediate notification for. If you deal with anything that is mission critical, and you just get too much email to ever notice an emailed alert, getting a text message (or even a phone call from their voice service) is just the ticket.

Perfect for automation.

Twilio is amazing for 2 step authentication. SMS notification, 2 way SMS. As well as voice calls. It was very easy to configure Twilio with our system. It also works great for SMS marketing.

If you are a SaaS company and need to integrate with SMS, phone or video, Twilio is for you. There pricing structure is pretty straightforward and allows you to auto-reload your account when your balance is low. This is a nice feature, as I don't have to worry about not sending SMS messages because I forgot to fund the account.

When you need to send SMS messages (or even MMS) and you have control of the applications - Twilio should be the default choice. There are a couple of instances where Twilio SMS might not make sense: 1. If the initial volume of messages was very high and there was willingness to invest in the time and effort in building the carrier connections to directly send the SMS messages. 2. The originating SMS number was highly dynamic - Twilio requires authorization verification to send out an SMS as a number. While Twilio provides excellent APIs to automate this process, it could be an issue needs to be considered.