Overview
What is Twilio?
Twilio offers a CPaaS and CCaaS solution, with the combination of its programmable Voice, Video, and Messaging APIs, as well as the Twilio Flex cloud contact center. Additional capabilities include Twilio's Elastic SIP Trunking, as well as API for WhatsApp.
In my opinion, Unreliable
When do you need to use Twilio?
Scaling with Twilio Studio.
Twilio was the right choice
Twilio Reliable.
Best in class communication services
Beware TWILIO!
A Game-Changer for Communication Solutions
Great Twilio products, easy to adopt, revolutionary solutions.
A road to better customer penetration
- Onboa…
Twilio - Multiple great products!
Satisfied with Programmatic Messaging
Delivers as promised to both my clients and my businesses
Twilio has real bad customer service!!!
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Pricing
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WhatsApp Business API
$0.0042
WhatsApp Business API
$0.005
Entry-level set up fee?
- Setup fee optional
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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- Competitors
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What is Twilio?
Twilio is a Customer Engagement Platform that offers a suite of channel APIs, serverless tools, and fully-programmable solutions that can be rapidly deployed.
The vendor states the Twilio Customer Engagement Platform is used by over 10 million developers and 220,000 businesses worldwide to build customer engagement applications that grow engagement with their customers.
Common use cases include text marketing, Interactive Voice Response Systems (IVRs), alerts and notifications, and contact centers.
With Twilio’s Customer Engagement Platform, users can:
Power data-driven communications across all digital channels such as messaging, email, voice, video, and WhatsApp.
Develop one cohesive experience across all teams so that customers can experience a seamless conversation from the business.
Access tools to build, deploy, iterate, and scale customer engagement applications.
Build secure, and compliant customer engagement applications for customers in over 180 countries.
Twilio Features
- Supported: Twilio Flex (Call/Contact Center)
- Supported: Twilio SendGrid Marketing Campaigns
- Supported: Twilio SendGrid Email API
- Supported: Programmable Messaging
- Supported: Programmable Voice
- Supported: Programmable Video
- Supported: WhatsApp Business API
- Supported: Twilio Conversations
- Supported: Programmable Wireless (IoT)
- Supported: Super SIM
- Supported: Phone Numbers
- Supported: Short Codes
- Supported: Twilio Authy
- Supported: Developer Tools
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Twilio Integrations
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud AI
- Salesforce
- Zendesk
Twilio Competitors
Twilio Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
Supported Countries | We support 180 countries world-wide. |
Supported Languages | English |
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(1-25 of 41)Twilio is reliable for whatsapp business integration
- Whatsapp Business API integration
- Easy to setup
- Excelent developer documentation
- The UXI is a bit heavy, it can be improved
- Analytics not so easy to understand
- Should warn before suspending the account
In my opinion, Unreliable
- MMS to SMS conversion
- 1st party language tooling for API usage
- Reliability
- Monitoring / metrics
- Admin console
In my experience, Twilio is also regularly having reliability issues, which are reported very vaguely on their website. The one time I was successful in getting an RCA on an outage, it amounted to "this thing broke, automatically recovered eventually, we don't know why".
When do you need to use Twilio?
In addition, it helps us drive sales while at the same time keeping a pulse on what sort of products/services our customers might want to see next.
- Marketing and Promotions
- Chatbots for Customer Service
- Transactional Emails
- Pricing Transparency and Simplicity
- Documentation and Developer Support:
- Customer Support for All Tiers
If you are a startup, then it might not be needed. It might be considered too expensive of an option.
If you want to keep the pulse with your customers and stay top of mind with an easy place for SMS and transactional emails, Twilio is a good recommendation.
Scaling with Twilio Studio.
- The API and the web tools make it really easy to get started.
- Twilio Studio is really intuitive to work with.
- The Twilio Console has a lot of features useful for our needs.
- Twilio Studio still lacks transparency between the Flow engine and the underlying TwiML engine in several ways.
- The documentation about how rate limitations work with SMS is not always clear.
- The support team often has a hard time understanding our use cases and tends to answer with general guidelines rather than answer my specific questions.
Best in class communication services
- Documentation
- Developer Guides
- Support
- Account Transfers
- Finding Owned Resources
Beware TWILIO!
In my experience, Twilio keeps putting our "campaign" off for days at a time. In my experience, we contacted with no response multiple times and at this point, we will likely leave Twilio for another provider unless something changes this weekend.
I would not recommend Twillio at all for setting up for a client. In my opinion, it has been a "MONTH" long nightmare to get this feature back up and running.
- Allows to send one way messages
- Can be attached to third party software
- In my opinion, online support is extremely subpar for clients.
- In my experience, no way to talk with anyone without a $1,500 investment monthly in their service.
- In my experience, be prepared to wait at least 2-4 days to receive even one response from their support.
Satisfied with Programmatic Messaging
- Sending SMS messages
- Receiving SMS messages
- Uptime
- Easier regulatory registration (not necessarily Twilio's fault that this is hard)
Twilio has real bad customer service!!!
Affordable entry point for small nonprofits
- Customizable, infinitely so
- Grants program allows nonprofits to try it out
- Reliable, wherever an sms or mms goes, so does twillio
- Communication about regulatory changes
- Customer support, even when it's user error, team is supportive and encouraging
- complex - user interface is good but you need significant programming logic and testing
- alerts from errors - while we get alerts, we could use more descriptive/helpful alerts
Simplify your comunications channels with Twilio.
- Allows you to buy virtual phone numbers.
- Allows you to set SMS interfaces within your software.
- Provides an interface that allows you to monitor your virtual line and balance.
- It would be good to have a user interface for one-time projects.
- Sometimes is difficult to find documentation.
- A more userfriendly interface.
- Two Factor Authentication
- Backup and Restore of Secure Keys.
- One Time Authentication
- UI needs to be improved looks old fashioned.
- No functionality to customise account name and Icon
Twilio is one of the most interesting call routing services
- Twilio's API is so easy to program that we can create a complete network of calls routed and connected to each other in the most complex way possible, where all kinds of operations are applied, from screening to call transcription processes.
- Its communication system takes omnichannel mechanics from other services and optimizes them, making communication very extensible.
- There are several shortcomings within the Twilio platform, mostly in the area of real-time monitoring management, since Twilio does not have advanced tracking tools to keep smoothly auditing operations that need to be performed.
- It does not have a programmable alert system, which forces us to depend on another service to manage the alerts in case of relevant calls at a certain time.
Tool to give you those quick wins!
- Works great and helps businesses communicate effectively and programmatically
- Light weight interface
- Well documented
- Magic SMS login
- A cloud service provider should always have ways of improving pricing given this competitive industry
- Consistency across the sales team
- Customer service with instant messaging to suite customers from different time zones
Highly efficient tool, good support service
- Plenty of options of channels to offer as part of the tool
- Integrations
- Automating actions, such as emails and SMS confirmations of orders or support tickets
- Experienced some technical issues in the past
- Not the easiest to set up (initially) - this was the first time I used the tool
- IT executives would find it easier to set up rather than marketers - it would be good if the tool was aimed more at marketing. This said product support is good
Twilio text messaging through CRM
- Integrates well with other platforms
- Easy to setup
- Support is good
- The application for mobile phones
- Adding a feature where you can lookup numbers to see if they're a landline or cell
- More mobile friendly use
I work with busy clinicians all day and they're usually in session but need to communicate quickly to get questions and concerns answered. I am able to quickly respond to them via text and send them important information that they have at their fingertips. I can also send out auto-texts to new clients so they're being taken care of right away.
Twilio is the answer if you want effective communication with your Clients and prospective Clients
- Twilio helps us with Client email and keeps us compliant.
- Because of Twilio, we rest easy knowing our communication our Clients is happening
- It helps us avoid being blacklisted as spammers
- We found it was easy to set up but it takes a little time to learn how to implement
- Explanations of functionality were sometimes confusing and took longer to figure out.
One of the best software/tool that I've ever used.
- They provide you all the numbers that were available in a certain country.
- Their security is very very tight for their customers.
- Very easy to use and navigate,
- Lags on their website.
- Long time to load a certain page.
Twilio SMS API for live chat platform
- Provide/release SMS.
- Texting via SMS.
- More visible logs.
- Very easy for developers to get started.
- Great API documentation.
- A lot of active community content and code examples.
- A robust platform, no significant outage impacting our services.
- The administration dashboard is complex - improved UX would be welcomed for the admins.
Twilio--the best communication as a platform service out there with great integration capabilities
- Getting to know Twilio is super easy thanks to its amazing documentation, which is written in a very clear and simple-to-understand manner.
- Console is easy to use, things are easy to find, and navigation is great.
- Awesome reliability--we haven't experienced any downtime and Twilio's services are highly reliable and built for resiliency.
- Premium support is great, but they charge a hefty fee. The rest of the support tiers are not that great and we had some issues and friction with the support earlier when we were in the lower support tiers. But since we use Twilio globally and at a large scale, we decided to switch to the top support tier, although it comes at a cost but is good. I wish they provided at least decent support in lower tiers as well.
- We saw some API failures to the calls while initially implementing Twilio, reached out to our CSM, and he took some time but was able to fix that for us--never imagined the API failures from Twilio.
- Our customers have complained about very occasional call drops and bad audio quality.
- Delivering messages to some countries, like China, takes time.
- Makes phone calls
- Processes SMS messages
- Provides a phone number
Increase your ROI with Whatsapp Business through Twilio
- The ecosystem is just good and is online 99% of the time
- They provide you with needed tools in order to implement solutions that you have in mind.
- As for Whatsapp Numbers they give you personal follow-up from the beginning until the implementation from the side of Twilio of course.
- Well when we talk about Twilio we already know is gonna be hard to implement since are most of the time API request. I know that Twilio has partners with several business that make 3rd party integrations so an easy way to find in Twilio those integrators might be useful for those who want to use Twilio but they have the tech barrier against them.
- Twilio WhatsApp Business didn't have verified numbers for Mexico, so our business is using a US whatsapp verified number business. It could be nice to have a local Mexican number in order to be closer to our customers. For international business this might not be necessary.
- Cost even for WhatsApp Business is slightly almost the same as sending SMS we were expecting to savings by using Whatsapp instead of SMS so a better differentiation in price will be a good improvement.
- Fantastic documentation
- Good customer support
- Messaging functionality in lots of countries
- Fantastic error messaging and debugging
- Not supported in all countries
- Prices can be high, particularly internationally
- Programming trees of voice responses can start to get really unwieldy
Great for Triggered Text Message Notifications
- 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.
Drive 2-Factor Adoption with Authy
- Time-based one-time password (TOTP) backup - If you lose your phone or another authentication device, Authy keeps an encrypted cloud backup of your TOTPs.
- Multi-Device Support - Your TOTPs are no longer tied to a single device - Authy supports multiple devices (including Apple Watch!).
- Excellent User Interface - Authy makes it easy to make sure you're entering the right TOTP for your application.
- Authy does not support the "push button" multi-factor authentication from your application's native apps. This means if you want to use Authy, you still need to use TOTP based codes.
- Not really a shortcoming of Authy, but it does nothing to help with multi-factor authentication using text messages - those are still sent to your platform's messaging app.
- Authy doesn't always display how much time is left before your current token expires, making it difficult to know how much time you have left to enter the current code.