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Easy enough to do already. Twilio doesn't need to implement this in order to make this interesting. Not much different than looking up someone's whois and pretending to be GoDaddy.
The sort of person who registers a domain might be a little more alert than the larger group of people who have a mobile phone?
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#22Swedish landlines seems to not work. I manage to lookup my old mobile phone number and it say Sweden correctly. But if I input +4686736000 I get 404 back.
The web UI seems a little clunky and overloaded right now. I got a few errors on my cell number before it finally worked.
If you both would like to shoot me an email to rob [at] twilio [dot] com, we'll ship you a t-shirt as thanks for pointing out the error.
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Hey Jon - Rob from Twilio here. Good feedback - appreciate you sharing. We do have geographic information with each webhook sharing city, state and zip - agree it would be useful to have this in the Lookup resources as well.
Any idea if/when that'd happen? ;)
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Hey Jon - Rob from Twilio here. Good feedback - appreciate you sharing. We do have geographic information with each webhook sharing city, state and zip - agree it would be useful to have this in the Lookup resources as well.
Thank Rob, If you did add geographic info, what would it be base on? area code/NXX? How relevant would it be considering LNP?
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#28It would be really nice if this provided CNAM info, too.
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#29My telco was charging $8/month for visual voicemail, so I opted to buy a Twilio number for $1/month, and set my phone to forward no answer/busy/unavailable to a simple Twilio app I wrote that handles voicemail. When someone leaves me a message, I get an SMS with the message and caller details. I've been using OpenCNAM ( https://www.opencnam.com ) for the caller ID look-up. I implemented something similar for our offi…