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Hey all, I'm the engineering manager for teams at Twilio responsible for WhatsApp integration, among other channels. We're more than happy to answer any technical or general questions -- fire away with replies. Will keep an eye on it today.
Will this be available in Germany as well? My company is already using your services for sms and happy about it.
Hey all, I'm the engineering manager for teams at Twilio responsible for WhatsApp integration, among other channels. We're more than happy to answer any technical or general questions -- fire away with replies. Will keep an eye on it today.
Does that discard the creation of remittance apps? That's not selling, that's just sending money between parties. I was thinking on sending money around the world using WhatsApp, is that allowed?
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It seems there is no support for letting a user share their location over WhatsApp through the API at this moment - I was wondering why that is and if you're expecting that that will change soon? For the rest I've experimented with the system and it's been working quite well, thanks for the work!
Glad to hear it! Location support actually launched just last week! Check out https://www.twilio.com/blog/new-rich-features-support-deeper... and https://www.twilio.com/docs/sms/whatsapp/api#send-a-location... for details
I really didn't like the WhatsApp approach on this. Basically only partnering with few big vendors like twilio and then asking people to build apps via them (by basically paying for it). Other apps like telegram allows anyone to directly interact with them
WhatsApp's founders were inclined to go with #1. Mark Zuckerberg appears to prefer #2 and #3.
This is nice but quite expensive. Up to 0.09$ per message inbound or outbound! Pricing for Template messages Outbound template messages to WhatsApp destinations have two different components: Edit: Here's the price breakdown. [0] > Twilio charges a flat fee of $0.005 per message for all WhatsApp messaging. This applies to all incoming messages, outbound Template and Session messages. > WhatsApp also charges a per-mes…