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San Francisco, CA (February 9, 2010) – Twilio, (www.twilio.com)
Previously, developing SMS applications required months of contract negotiations, carrier approvals, and lengthy contracts. Starting today, developers can use Twilio to launch SMS applications in minutes, not months. Twilio enables customers to use its website or REST APIs to purchase phone numbers in real-time, which are instantly ready to start sending and receiving text messages. The company offers phone numbers in nearly every US area code, and all existing Twilio customers’ phone numbers have been upgraded to support Twilio SMS.
The company also announced today that it has lowered prices on Twilio phone numbers to $1 per month for US local and $2 per month for toll free phone numbers, a decrease from $5 per month. The new pricing has automatically applied to all existing and new Twilio customer customers.
“We’re excited to give developers the fastest, easiest way to start building SMS-enabled applications,”
“By aggregating the demand of many applications, we are able pass the economies of scale to our customers,” said Evan Cooke, Twilio’s Chief Technology Officer. “We’
Twilio SMS builds upon the company’s pioneering voice application platform that allows developers to rapidly build scalable, reliable voice applications, including applications for Interactive Voice Response (IVR), Public Branch eXchange (PBX), pay-per-call lead generation, alerts & notifications, polling, political activism, and more. Twilio SMS now extends the company’s simple APIs and pay as you go pricing to the world of SMS development.
Since its launch in late November 2008, Twilio has amassed a community of over 6,000 developers, representing Fortune 100 brands, leading social media websites, independent software vendors, national political parties and more. Customers include Sony Music, the Democratic National Committee; the National September 11th Museum & Memorial at Ground Zero, and Salesforce.com. Developers can get started building voice and SMS applications in minutes a Twilio Free Trial account that includes $30 of free Twilio credit.
Twilio is currently hiring engineering, developer evangelism, sales, business development and marketing roles. Interested candidates should email resumes to jobs@twilio.com.
