Introducing Our Ridiculously Simple Twilio SMS API

Post by matthewer » Tue, Feb 09, 2010, 6:41 PM UTC

johns wrote: post #29

danielle17 wrote: post #28

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To be clear, the throttle is 1 message per minute per phone number (which is $1/month), not per account. -danielle (@twilio)

Really? One per minute per number? That's a pretty big limitation. Edit: I think Danielle just mistyped. From the FAQ: "Each of your Twilio SMS-enabled phone numbers can send SMS messages at a rate of 1 message per second. You can make requests to Twilio as fast as you like, and Twilio will queue the messages, releasing them at a rate of 1 message per second. It is not possible to adjust this rate."

Post by Vindexus » Tue, Feb 09, 2010, 6:58 PM UTC

matthewer wrote: post #31

johns wrote: post #29

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Really? One per minute per number? That's a pretty big limitation. Edit: I think Danielle just mistyped. From the FAQ: "Each of your Twilio SMS-enabled phone numbers can send SMS messages at a rate of 1 message per second. You can make requests to Twilio as fast as you like, and Twilio will queue the messages, releasing them at a rate of 1 message per second. It is not possible to adjust this rate."

Either way, imagine you need to send out 100 messages. That would be 100 seconds (or even worse 100 minutes.) Imagine if you needed to send out 1,000 or a million. Its going to be hard to build a solely SMS service around this based on that limitation. I think this is awesome if you want to add SMS alerts to your existing website or build a proof of concept, but I don't think your going to build an SMS app on top of…

Post by gridspy » Tue, Feb 09, 2010, 7:57 PM UTC

Vindexus wrote: post #33

matthewer wrote: post #31

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Either way, imagine you need to send out 100 messages. That would be 100 seconds (or even worse 100 minutes.) Imagine if you needed to send out 1,000 or a million. Its going to be hard to build a solely SMS service around this based on that limitation. I think this is awesome if you want to add SMS alerts to your existing website or build a proof of concept, but I don't think your going to build an SMS app on top of…

Well if your service is sending out 100 messages in one second then you can probably afford the $1-$2/month charge to add more numbers.

Post by jeffiel » Tue, Feb 09, 2010, 10:32 PM UTC

zackattack wrote: post #27

jeffiel wrote: post #24

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Hi Zackattack, It's bi-directional... ie, cookie state for the conversation. But in the quickstart, if you think about it... you only increment the counter once for the received message and the reply that the script is going to send, so the counter works out correctly. You had us thinking for a few minutes there :) -jeff @twilio

Cool, thanks for getting back to me so quickly. To clarify, the API/platform supports the following two scenarios: 1) You make an HTTP POST to the SMS resource 2) Twilio automatically sends out a text message, and simultaneously does a GET/POST of your script, and $_REQUEST contains "From", "To", and "Body" keys AND 1) Your Twilio phone # receives a text message 2) Twilio automatically pings your script, and inside t…

Post by fuzzmeister » Tue, Feb 09, 2010, 11:29 PM UTC