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PS: still amazed that you got SMS working on TFNs, though I guess that's more of the SMS/800 (the organization charged with managing TFNs in North America, not to be confused with SMS messaging...)
Looking on the site, I see SMS/MMS support on all LOCAL US/Canadian numbers, but TFNs remain SMS-only. Just curious, any plans to add MMS to toll free numbers? PS: still amazed that you got SMS working on TFNs, though I guess that's more of the SMS/800 (the organization charged with managing TFNs in North America, not to be confused with SMS messaging...)
This is an amazing biz dev achievement. Twilio seems to be getting closer to aggregating all of the hard stuff in telco land every day. It's hard to overstate just how hard this is to do. This isn't as simple as going to an aggregator and getting SMS done, MMS has been one of the last bastions of exerted carrier influence and it's slowly being democratized. This is the first time I can recall someone getting this lev…
It seems like it would be the first time someone has done it properly. What is so beautiful about Twilio is their attention to detail for developers - amazing documentation, samples, etc so I am assuming their MMS implementation will be as clean. Here's hoping. mBlox, OpenMarket, Mobile365 all tried to implement the half assed MMS implementation forced on them by the carrier market and it was an absolutely nightmare.…
https://www.twilio.com/blog/2014/09/getting-started-with-twi...
Can someone explain a little bit more? I think I've been spoilt rotten by the web API world. Don't telcos provide MMS gateway like how they provide SMS gateways? What is actually happening under the hood here?
Lots actually. MMS is hard - multiple devices with no consistency, different interconnect gateways that can mangle messages along the way. An easy to use, reliable and pervasive MMS gateway isn't as easy to implement as some might think and the carriers haven't made it a priority. In fact the US carriers completely messed up their early MMS implementations with Washington-style regulation that made the user experienc…
Not only is their API easy to use, constantly improved, and impeccably supported, but over the course of the last year, they've donated thousands of dollars worth of free credit to technology activists including the EFF, Taskforce.is, and Fight for the Future. They've even modified their privacy policy to make it possible for my team at EFF to use Twilio on campaigns we run.
Rob Spectre, who's replying to comments in this thread, has been amazing too - offering hands-on support when we run big campaigns like The Day We Fight Back and last week's Battle for the Net.
Thanks to all the Twilio team. You rock.
Now if we could just get Google Voice to support it, that would be awesome.
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Would love to learn more about why these messages are failing for you. Reckon you could shoot us some of the failed SmsSids to help@twilio.com? I'd be much obliged.
I'm not using the API only the "see for yourself" link on the MMS page at https://www.twilio.com/mms . Webpage says it's sent but nothing ever arrives to the phone. I'll send an email to help@twilio.com with my phone number if someone over there wants to try a few test sends for debug info. As a side note I just tested using the SMS page and it seems to work now. When I last tried it a couple months ago when swapping…
Looking on the site, I see SMS/MMS support on all LOCAL US/Canadian numbers, but TFNs remain SMS-only. Just curious, any plans to add MMS to toll free numbers? PS: still amazed that you got SMS working on TFNs, though I guess that's more of the SMS/800 (the organization charged with managing TFNs in North America, not to be confused with SMS messaging...)
Can someone explain a little bit more? I think I've been spoilt rotten by the web API world. Don't telcos provide MMS gateway like how they provide SMS gateways? What is actually happening under the hood here?
Lots actually. MMS is hard - multiple devices with no consistency, different interconnect gateways that can mangle messages along the way. An easy to use, reliable and pervasive MMS gateway isn't as easy to implement as some might think and the carriers haven't made it a priority. In fact the US carriers completely messed up their early MMS implementations with Washington-style regulation that made the user experienc…