Having sent out 8k+emails via Mandrill I how need to be able to get a list of those emails which had been opened and then had a click recorded.
I can see the 1,000 most recent through the outbound report in Mandrill but can't seem to figure out how to generate a list of all outbound emails which have clicks recorded against them.
Thanks in advance :)
Hmm I know of two solutions here:
1) Use Mandrill's webhooks to receive and track open/click events on your own servers. Documentation here.
2) Use a secondary service to collect and parse mandrill analytics. I've used sendwithus before, but keen.io may also work.
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I have an application which uses Twilio to send SMSs.
There is a situation where the application sends multiple messages to a person, for example a message with info about product P1, then another message with information about product P2, and so on. So my question is, when the person replys the SMS, how could I know to exactly what SMS he is replying?
Or is it possible that each SMS that my application sends to the same person creates different conversations in Twilio, so I can track each response per each different SMS?, if so, how I can do it?
If you trigger the SMS messages by API it's hard to know what messages the customers answer.
We got to solve this problem using Twilio Sync (https://www.twilio.com/docs/sync/api/document-resource) which is basically cloud storage, so when we need to trigger an SMS or Whatsapp message, we save some information on Twilio Sync, like Twilio number, client number and the messages that were sent.
When the customer answers the message, we send him to a Twilio Studio that runs a Function that read the Sync document and check if this customer comes from a message response, if yes, we get the triggered message and added on the conversations, so we know the message that customer answered.
The Sync isn't a database and has a limit, so depending on your message volume, it can not work well.
We want to be able to send an SMS using Twilio and the person receiving should be able to reply to the message thread.
How can I link the reply to the original message? (In e-mail we just put the thread->id in the reply address)
The person receiving could be in multiple threads.
Twilio seems to suggest cookies but I don't see how this could work.
Mick
Twilio developer evangelist here.
There's nothing in SMS that allows for a message to be replied to directly. If you check your own phone and its SMS application you will find that you can't reply, just send another message in chronological order.
One option you have is to buy and use multiple numbers to communicate with your users. You only need as many numbers as you have open threads with a user, but that is a way to segregate messages between your application and an end user.
I want to get received messages of the same day of a phone number with the help of API or anything.
(I have purchased ofcourse a phone number)
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I have a twilio app which sends 5 questions to 1000 user and users reply's to it. Like a survey. App is deployed on Azure.
I will get 5000 messages in log.
I am planning to retrieve messages by phone number and update my database from the user.
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Implemented this https://www.twilio.com/docs/guides/sms/how-to-receive-and-reply-in-csharp. Any other idea for the requirement is also appreciated.
Twilio developer evangelist here.
I see that you've implemented the basic flow for responding to incoming SMS messages. If you are implementing surveys across a number of users my advice would be to expand on that application.
Firstly, you would need to run through your database to get all your users' phone numbers and send the first question to all of them using the Twilio REST API to send each a text message.
Then, when you receive an incoming message from one of your respondents you can find out the number that sent the message by inspecting the From parameter on the incoming request body. You can then look up your user in your database by phone number and save that response for them. Then you can use the TwiML <Message> to respond to the user and send them the next question.
This way you can collect the responses as they come in, rather than call the REST API to list all responses.
Let me know if that helps at all.
I'm using Facebook Chat API in an iOS app. I already can send a message successfully to a Facebook friend. Now I'm wondering if a can send the same message to multiple recipients.
I don't know if it's technically possible or there's any limitation about that.
I know that I can create N messages for N users and send one by one. But depending on the number of Facebook friends that the user can select, it can take a long time until all the messages are delivered. If this is the only case, should I open one different thread for each message that is going to be sent with the XMPP stream?
I appreciate any resolution or clue for this question.
There's an XMPP extension XEP-0033: Extended Stanza Addressing which supports multicasting messages to multiple recipients. The extension has progressed to draft status, however few XMPP servers or clients support it. I doubt Facebook Chat does, and couldn't find any mention in the XMPPFramework source.
I don't think there's a better way than sending the same message to multiple recipients. Some servers may require you to pause between sending lots of identical messages, and I wouldn't be surprised if that were true of Facebook Chat.
Multi-User Chat is another way to accomplish this with XMPP, but unfortunately Facebook Chat doesn't support MUC.
I'm planning to do an BB app. But I don't know if it is possible. I ask for your recommendation.
It will consist of two apps.
The first: the user will download it. He will be subscribed to the app, sharing his mobile number, PIN, and mail (could this be done automatically? This is, without the user typing that info and sending it)
The second: the admin will send messages of different nature (sms, mail and/or pin) to the subscribers of the first app.
Summarizing: I would like to send messages (of different kind) to many users. I looked, and, at least, in the BB API is possible to send mails to multiple users. But, how to do it with sms and pin.
Also, how would be the code logic that subscribe the users? Could be done automatically? If not, do I need a dedicated server to store the info of the users? etc.
If you have a more elegant way to achieve what I'm posting, please, let me know.
It sounds like one of your requirements is to originate the messages from a BlackBerry. This may be inefficient and costly.
The best solution to send data to multiple BlackBerry users is the Push Service which you can read about here: http://us.blackberry.com/developers/platform/pushapi.jsp