When sending messages to India, your Twilio phone number will not appear as the sender of the message. This is common when sending SMS across international borders. In the case of India, the sender ID will be changed by the carrier before your SMS messages are delivered to end users. Instead of your Twilio number, end users will see a random short number between 5 and 9 digits long, e., and g.
Well, Messages from Twilio will not be affected by India’s national “Do Not Disturb” (DND) list for SMS. Due to the sender ID change, recipients are unable to send a reply back to your Twilio phone number; SMS messaging to India is 1-way (outbound) only.
If you are interested in conducting two-way messaging with mobile users in India, you may be interested in the Twilio API for WhatsApp. For more information about two-way SMS support on Twilio, see Receiving Two-Way SMS and MMS Messages with Twilio.
What is Twilio doing in Bengaluru?
Twilio’s presence in Bengaluru is the beginning of something big.
Download, test drive, and tweak them yourself. Twilio often receives questions about the locality of data we process for our customers – where data is being stored depending on where it originates. Businesses all over the world use and trust Twilio, and they interact with their users also everywhere in the world.
Who is using Twilio?
1313 companies reportedly use Twilio in their tech stacks, including Uber, Airbnb, and Instacart. 6087 developers on Stack. Share have stated that they use Twilio.
Some authors claimed twilio was founded in 2008 by Jeff Lawson, Evan Cooke, and John Wolthuis and was originally based in both Seattle, Washington, and San Francisco, California.
The next thing we asked ourselves was; when did Twilio launch its API?
A few days later on November 20, 2008, the company launched Twilio Voice, an API to make and receive phone calls completely hosted in the cloud. Twilio’s text messaging API was released in February 2010, and SMS shortcodes were released in public beta in July 2011. Twilio raised approximately $103 million in venture capital growth funding.
In October 2018, Twilio announced they were acquiring Send. Grid, a Denver, Colorado-based customer communication platform for transactional and marketing email, for $2 billion.
How do I know if Twilio is right for my business?
Watch Twilio Customer Videos, Testimonials & Customer References to decide if Twilio has the right business software or service for your company. See which companies are customers of Twilio. Don’t see enough customer references? Take a look at references from other similar vendors.
What types of phone numbers does Twilio offer?
Twilio offers Voice and SMS enabled phone numbers globally. These phone numbers are either generally available (GA) or in Beta. In addition, you can request early access to the latest numbers added to Twilio in Preview before they’re available via the Console or API. You can view regulatory requirements for all Twilio phone numbers at this page .
What is the largest segment of Twilio customers?
Looking at Twilio customers by industry, we find that Computer Software (28%) and Information Technology and Services (9%) are the largest segments. 69% of Twilio customers are in United States and 6% are in United Kingdom .
You could be thinking “How are Twilio’s services billed?”
Twilio’s services are accessed over HTTP and are billed based on usage. Looking at Twilio customers by industry, we find that Computer Software (28%) and Information Technology and Services (9%) are the largest segments. 69% of Twilio customers are in United States and 6% are in United Kingdom .