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December 21, 2019
Great for Triggered Text Message Notifications
We utilize Twilio SMS as part of our communication strategy to inform our audience of key deadline and extension dates in the application process. It is currently used by our Marketing team but could be expanded for other department use cases.
- Competitive rates in the market are being offered.
- It is cheaper compared to the rates we would be paying if we are to use the services offered by regular major carriers.
- The API isvery convenient and easy to set up in the back end for operational use with different platforms.
- It does not directly integrate with Oracle
- Have to use a third party plug-in to connect to Oracle
- There's an issue when viewing/searching for SMS transaction logs. When you search for the logs using phone number as a search tool, sometimes the results will not show up.
- If you export the log, you only get 100 or so rows so you can't extract all of your log data.
Twilio SMS is being used as a transactional SMS platform mostly, and we are starting to branch into promotional and marketing SMS as well to bring back users and increase retention. But for now, it is mostly used to remind users and restaurants of upcoming reservations so neither misses the time, discount, and more that needs to be applied to the customer's bill. This is mostly done on a time base, either based off of direct action inside the app or an hour before action needs to be taken.
- Easy implementation. Just a few lines of code.
- Custom numbers for area codes (we have one in each different city).
- Cost effective. Very cheap not only for a number (about $1 or so per number per month) but also for sending out automated SMS.
- Good overview dashboards to see activity, send rates, and deliverability.
- Number verification (so the text that makes you input a code) something we haven't used but will be adding in in the near future.
- Setting up response sequences should be more intuitive like an email sequence software or a chatbot service where you can send users through flows based on actions.
- Less code setup or having a graphical user interface to set it up would be nice then to be able to just export the code of what we need and send it over to developers.
- Easier multi-media sending for images, videos, or files needed.
April 04, 2019
Review + Critique of Twilio SMS
We integrated Twilio into Salesforce as our live messaging (text/SMS) platform. Each of our sales representatives sends approximately 2,500 text messages per month. More than half of these messages are automated.
For now, Twilio is only used in our Sales organization to communicate with prospective tenants.
Twilio allows us to increase engagement with our leads.
For now, Twilio is only used in our Sales organization to communicate with prospective tenants.
Twilio allows us to increase engagement with our leads.
- Simple Salesforce integration. Twilio provided much-needed relief from Salesforce's built-in messaging platform (LiveMessage).
- Intuitive and user-friendly. No training necessary for new users.
- Responsive support. Twilio has technicians who are well-trained in identifying obstacles in a Salesforce integration.
- Reading, Marking, and Archiving messages require far too many clicks.
- Both Twilio and Salesforce are to blame for this: Configuring how messages are routed should be much simpler. Admin users still receive all text messages in their inbox. This requires time-consuming sifting and sorting.
- Twilio does not have message previewing. I wish I could hover over an unread message and read its contents without having to open and read the message.
At my organization, we use Twilio to send text message alerts to our subscribers. While the primary delivery channel for our content is via email, as a premium upsell feature we offer our same content sent as a text message as well. Many people currently prefer to receive alerts via SMS rather than email, so it's a nice perk for them.
- Sending the same text message to thousands of users. With Twilio's number pooling, you can use a "number pool" of regular phone numbers to round-robin send the same content to 1000s of users without getting blocked by the carriers.
- Great Ruby API, very easy to use and write unit tests for
- Call forwarding to your personal cellphone, to allow users to reach you (after going through an automated phone tree)
- Price is expensive. Twilio is the market leader and thus they charge more than their competitors. By far our most expensive SaaS service is Twilio.
- Support reps are not always helpful
- Documentation can be confusing at times
December 22, 2018
Twilio SMS is Simply Efficient!
Twilio SMS is being used across our various departments - scheduling, sales, production, accounting, etc. - as an additional means of communication, besides phone and e-mail, with our client base. It gives clients another way to schedule and confirm appointments, receive information pertinent to their account, and allows for real-time updates and instantaneous communication.
- No actual phone system is needed
- Easy to integrate and the API is simple with lots of documentation and examples that can help you get the best use out of it
- Being able to create automatic responses based on key customer data points helps make communication that much more efficient
- The control panel can be a bit confusing; could stand to be a bit more streamlined
We use Twilio SMS for all our messaging sends related to bookings, reminders and marketing messages. API integration with our applications was very simple and it is easy to then manage responses from SMS into our customer service applications.
- Simple API integration
- Robust & Scaleable
- Cost Effective
- Better support for MMS
Twilio SMS is built into our software and allows us to relay text messages through auxiliary numbers in order to protect contact information (in a very similar model to Lyft and Uber).
- Twilio SMS support is on point! Their messaging rates aren't the cheapest but if there's something that you are scratching you head to find the answer to, Twilio has it on lock!
- The UI is particularly easy to use and easy-to-understand, easy to modify at any given time.
- Twilio SMS provides detailed bug reports and offers good guidance on where to look for origination of errors in our system.
- UI interface collapses randomly bringing you back to the Dashboard page.
- Wish that "Active Numbers" page could further segment. If you have thousands of numbers used for different things in your application, it's impossible to group them or anything so they are just lumped into one gigantic folder.
- The sales department is a little intense. Like 8 emails in the past month about scheduling a meeting that's kinda far out.
March 13, 2018
Twilio - often paying more is worth it!
Twilio SMS is used for our transactional notifications and lender alerts.
- Very reliable service
- Consistent deliverability
- Well documented
- Copilot telephone number pooling
- Expensive compared to competitors
- Version control can be wayward in docs
- Unable to download more than 10,000 logs at one go
We used Twilio to send text messages to both our clients and their customers when they book reservations. We also use it to verify we have a mobile phone number for the customer, send virtual gift cards, and more.
- Twilio appears to very easy to configure.
- Twilio offers great reporting tools so we can scan text messages that are sent without having use a website control panel or build a custom UX.
- Twilio prices were more affordable than our previous solution and appear to scale well for future needs.
- As we have started using Twilio for additional notifications, we would like to label them. The tools to do so did not seem as easy as I would expect. They want us to set up a different number for each notification, but that would cause the user to get messages pertaining to the same action from different numbers and doesn't seem smart.
- We had a few errors with Twilio adding an extra 1 to the US country code that we were not sending them. Made us wonder if some prefixes were flagged.
I use Twilio SMS with my customers to initiate chat applications from text messages. I've found that this works particularly well with my recruiting customers. I can create chat applications (live or bot-based) and then, using Twilio SMS, initiate those applications from text messages.
In practice it works like this. A webpage, social media ad, or search engine ad displays the message, "Text 'jobs' to ###-###-####." The prospect sends a one-word text that says, "jobs" to the number provided. That number is one that I purchased through Twilio and connected to my chat application. The initial message starts a text conversation with either a bot or a person and the prospect gets his or her questions answered.
By connecting applicants to a human or a bot instantly, we can usually increase our clients hire rate significantly while reducing the time it takes to schedule interviews.
In practice it works like this. A webpage, social media ad, or search engine ad displays the message, "Text 'jobs' to ###-###-####." The prospect sends a one-word text that says, "jobs" to the number provided. That number is one that I purchased through Twilio and connected to my chat application. The initial message starts a text conversation with either a bot or a person and the prospect gets his or her questions answered.
By connecting applicants to a human or a bot instantly, we can usually increase our clients hire rate significantly while reducing the time it takes to schedule interviews.
- Twilio provides reliable phone numbers that we can track to gain analytics on how they are used.
- Twilio provides phone numbers that we can connect to chat applications so that they can be initiated via text message.
- Twilio provides excellent tech support.
- Twilio's setup process can be a bit tech-heavy, so if you aren't used to using APIs and integrations, you may want to have someone set it up for you.
- Twilio's usage analytics could be more comprehensive and user friendly.
- This might seem picky, but Twilio make you use a overly complicated password to login. I use at least a dozen online tools and this is the only platform that does this to me. As a result I can never remember the password and I always have to look it up. It's not a major negative, but it is a hassle when you're super busy.
March 07, 2018
Highly customizable, inexpensive.
We use Twilio to send out SMS and MMS message to our list of subscribers. We've written a custom integration with Infusionsoft to accomplish this. We also use the Twilio Studio for campaigns like "Text SLIDES to ????? to receive the slides from this presentation."
- We like Twilio because it's so much less expensive than any other provider.
- The entire system is built on API calls, so Twilio is completely customizable, and not limited by a user interface.
- I've been playing with the Studio recently, and I think some additional functionality could be built in. I was trying to be foward thinking and thought I may be able to build out separate flows that interact with each other. So instead of creating one massive flow for every foreseeable interaction, I could build out a front end flow to determine which flow to direct them. If they text "SLIDES" it would direct them to the flow that handles slides. If they text "DISCOUNT" it would direct them to the DISCOUNT flow. If they texted something that didn't match, they'd be directed to a default flow. Within each flow, I should be able to reuse common items, like trying to match them up to someone already in my database, without having to rewrite the flow arguments every time.
March 06, 2018
SMS Services that pay for themselves
We use Twilio in a host of applications that are developed by my company. First, we have it integrated into our CRM platform, enabling our customers to correspond with their leads via SMS messages. We also use it for verifying password change requests. Also, we use it in a variety of insurance industry related portal applications to send alerts to the insureds when a new business policy is written, or when a new document or bill is available.
- Twilio obviously does a great job at sending SMS Messages. The delivery is quick and never fails. The coding for sending them is relatively simple
- They provide you with a lot of options in terms of selecting your own phone number to use from their pool of local numbers.
- Their customer service is prompt and responsive and makes every effort to help you even with technical problems.
- Their documentation could be greatly improved. It can be hard to figure out what you are looking for if you don't already know where an how to look for it. When new features are added, also their communication of those features is sometimes non-existent.
- Their API is easy to use, once you understand it. But in getting to that point, it can be hard to understand. For example, I doubt that the average person will understand that there is in fact a messaging queue and that something can be removed from the queue before it sends (if you are quick and lucky) and more importantly, why would the average person want to??
We are using Twilio to communicate via SMS to partners and employees. It give us a way of managing texts from specific groups to select groups as well as individuals. It helped us automate the process, rather than relying on mobile phone carriers and their networks. For us, this is a perfect solution.
- Easy to implement
- Reliable
- retainable
- Deliverability can go out, but it seems to be rectified quickly.
- Outage notifications would be helpful for administrators to be able to disable the service during an outage, so the issue does not compound.
We started as a small company, and soon realized we needed voice and SMS integration. We tried all possible hardware installations, but there was too much drama and it was expensive. Then we decided to look for any alternatives, honestly there were many but not many that fulfilled our needs. When we found Twilio we were amazed at how easy it was to implement SMS and voice integration.
Their API was very easy to understand and make it work with our projects. Ever since we are using Twilio with all our projects.
Their API was very easy to understand and make it work with our projects. Ever since we are using Twilio with all our projects.
- Their fast and secure API
- Easy documentation and amazing customer support
- Detailed log for all activities
- SDK for all programming languages
- Pretty much everything seems okay to us, though I would appreciate it if their pricing went down a little bit.
April 11, 2017
Twilio SMS services are AOK :-)
Twilio SMS is integrated in our SaaS application called the Atrium by LSPWare LLC. It will send SMS text messages to interpreters asking them if they can accept an interpretation job. They can respond via SMS if they are interested in the job. These SMS text messages are fully integrated into the product and will automatically assign interpreters to jobs.
- Twilio's interface (web site) is very intuitive and modern to use.
- Twilio's services are growing. We started to use their phone number formatting service (free) to recognize what country the phone number came from and how to format it in their locale.
- We plan to use additional services in Twilio like using multiple local phone numbers for some of our larger clients that send tens of thousands of text messages.
- Twilio's logs could be better. There are times I want to report on how many outgoing and incoming SMS messages I have sent via the app. This information is obtainable but could be improved upon by more filters.
September 07, 2016
Twilio SMS - it's all about the APIs
Twilio SMS is powerful in its sheer simplicity to use and implement. SMS is ubiquitous today and a simple concept to understand - but Twilio SMS makes it as easy to use as it is to understand why you need to use it. From billing, segmentation, APIs, debugging, documentation - it's simple to use and works as expected. Every time.
- It's simple to implement from a programmatic standpoint
- The APIs are extremely well documented
- It's very cost effective
- If you don't have control over the application level, it might be hard to integrate
- Initially, the usage limits are low
Twilio Programmable SMS Scorecard Summary
About Twilio Programmable SMS
Twilio Programmable SMS allows the user to send and receive text messages globally with the API that over a million developers depend on. It can be deployed for mobile marketing, or other use cases where sending a text in an automated fashion might be useful (e.g. two-factor authentication, push notifications, etc).
Categories: Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS)
Twilio Programmable SMS Technical Details
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