I am using twilio to send sms messages through my Java Application.
And when I am sending emojis, emoji is being replaced with ? in the actual message I am getting.
I wasn't able to figure out what is the issue.
Any inputs about this error could be really helpful.
I read in twilio website that emoji's delivery is not guarateed. But I tested with multiple carriers. And I didn't get the emoji in not even one. Even if anyone aware of the list of carriers that it could support, it will be great.
Twilio developer evangelist here.
Emoji support has not been standardised across carriers, as a result we cannot guarantee support for Emoji across all of them. We will do the best we can to ensure the emoji in your message is delivered to your mobile carrier, but if they don't understand that emoji, they will usually replace it with gibberish.
Chances are that you will see some carriers show emoji and some not.
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I would like to check if a set of US numbers are SMS capable - the customer would like to have both SMS and voice on the numbers and I'd like to know if this is possible before porting the numbers to Twilio.
I tried the LookupAPI but that does not seem to give me this information.
I then sent a SMS to the number to see if the SMS is delivered and I get a delivered status in the Twilio API, which in theory would mean that the number is SMS capable, but I'm not sure if this test is conclusive.
Is there any other way I could determine the number capabilities without owning the number?
All US numbers ported over to Twilio support both Voice and SMS.
I'm facing some challenges with Twilio and was wondering if someone knows how to resolve them. First, would like to highlight that I don't have a programming background but I can write low-level code.
Current Case:
A session is booked > Record is created in Airtable via a Zap with calendly > Twilio sends a message using the info in Airtable via a zap with calendly.
Problems:
I'm currently only able to send 160 characters in the message. If the message is longer, only the first 160 characters are sent and the message is cut short (e.g. looking forwa....)
I don't have an easy way to respond back to messages. Currently Twilio forward all messages to a Voice number in one big thread and I have to respond back in this format
+1123456789: Message.
This is confusing and causes a lot of issues.
Is there any way to build something in Twilio which allows for manual responding?
Thank you all in advance!
Twilio developer evangelist here.
I'm currently only able to send 160 characters in the message. If the message is longer, only the first 160 characters are sent and the message is cut short (e.g. looking forwa....)
This sounds like a limitation of the Zap you are using. SMS messages are 160 characters in length, but Twilio can stitch together up to 10 messages, allowing you to send up to 1600 characters. Twilio doesn't truncate the messages either, so it sounds like something the Zap is doing. In 2017 Zapier did announce that you could send longer messages with their integration, you just had to update your Zap with the right setting.
I don't have an easy way to respond back to messages. Currently Twilio forward all messages to a Voice number in one big thread and I have to respond back in this format +1123456789: Message. This is confusing and causes a lot of issues. Is there any way to build something in Twilio which allows for manual responding?
You could certainly build something. Or integrate with an app like Front which can give you a shared inbox for things like incoming SMS from Twilio.
So I need to programmatically receive text messages from a shortcode. Twilio does not support this. Anybody know a service like Twilio but that is able to receive SMS messages from a short code sender?
Just to be clear. I need to receive a text message from a shortcode to a 10 digit number, not send from a shortcode.
Most services (Twilio, call fire) that let you send from a shortcode can not receive a text message from a shortcode
This can’t be done, shortcodes are unique to each carrier network, when a short code is available across multiple carriers it is implemented on each carrier separatly.
Also shortcodes are not international so 54321 could be used in both the UK and US by totally separate services.
SMS providers like Twilio and Vonage connect to the carriers in the same way as the shortcodes do, they are both an application connection. The carriers do not permit app to app messaging through their network so a shortcode app will only ever be able to send to a real subscriber with a SIM card.
You might find some providers that offer an SMS API by using banks of hosted SIM cards but this can be very flakey and you are usually sharing the number. The other option might be to look at hosting your own SIM card in a usb single or such and recieve the SMS that way.
Actually, Twillio does support this now, although with a big disclaimer that it "cannot guarantee that every short code globally will be able to reach Twilio numbers"
https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/223181668-Can-Twilio-numbers-receive-SMS-from-a-short-code-?_ga=2.202438166.641482548.1608644940-210958917.1588771372
I think this article might be just what you're looking for https://help.nexmo.com/hc/en-us/articles/216487658-Inbound-SMS-on-dedicated-US-short-code
You should be able to receive SMS messages on a dedicated US Shortcode.
Is there anyway to send the same text to multiple contacts not as a group text. I have been told that it would need a server to accomplish this. If that is the case I would like to be able to still send texts from my current number not a new number. I have checked out Twilio but have not gotten very far.
Twilio developer evangelist here.
You cannot send mass text messages using Twilio and your existing phone number.
One option you might have is, if you have a Mac you can control the SMS app programmatically to send lots of SMS messages. Here's a blog post with some example code to do that: https://www.twilio.com/blog/2017/06/drawing-pixel-art-text-messages-signal-video-wall.html
That might not be of much help, but while you can send lots of SMS messages with Twilio, you cannot do so using your existing number.
Yes you could send mass texts out to different numbers using twilio. No you could not use your current number.
You would have to purchase a new twilio number that has SMS messaging enabled.
Look at the Twilio documentation and their get started guide, figure out the language you want to create your server in and you will be sending texts in no time. https://www.twilio.com/docs/quickstart/node/programmable-sms You would run the webserver. Twilio does not offer a swift or ios based SMS solution.
https://www.twilio.com/docs/quickstart?filter-language=swift
I have tried different ways for inbound sms reassebling but failed therefore how to enable twilio configuration for sms reassembling if message is greater than 160 characters
Twilio developer evangelist here.
Twilio will concatenate the messages automatically for you. In fact it is possible to concatenate messages up to 1600 characters as you can see here.
However, some carriers will not support that, which means that even when Twilio concatenates the messages, they will be split up when showing on the device. Some devices will also have limitations to that, so concatenation really is limited to your carrier and device. We support concatenated message both ways. you can read more about it here for outbound messages.
Hope this helps you