If I am trying to offer a service for people to call the seller on my site, without using their number, but can I use Twilio API to let the buyer be get a number on my account. And I can set a limit on how many messages they can sent, and have complete control over the number that is created.
Yes, you can manage numbers with API calls.
https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/223182728-Using-the-API-to-search-for-and-buy-Twilio-phone-numbers
For example:
You can search for available numbers
https://www.twilio.com/docs/api/rest/available-phone-numbers
You can add a new phone number to your account
https://www.twilio.com/docs/api/rest/incoming-phone-numbers#local-incomingphonenumber-factory-resource
Does anyone know where slack puts the usage information?
For example, how many messages have we used?
How close are we to the dreaded 10,000 message free limit for searching?
How does a particular user (non-admin) backup everything OR better yet automatically post everything to gmail or drive or something else that last longer than 10,000 messages?
You can see the amount of message on the statistics page. https://myslack.slack.com/admin/stats
Usually every Slack user has access to that page (can be restricted to admins only).
To backup your messages you could develop a bot that automatically transfers old messages to an external cloud service and deletes the transferred message in Slack. The Slack API provides the method chat.delete for deleting messages. This approach will also work for private channels if the user that authenticated the bot is a member of that private channel.
Please note that your Slack will continue to function perfectly even after you have reached the 10.000 messages limit, but it will only show the newest 10.000 messages. If you really need to keep all messages you may want to consider either moving up to a paid tier or using a different service.
Buffer claims to have millions of users, all scheduling posts. The free plan allows for 10 posts per day.
How does Buffer overcome Twitter API limits?
They're not bypassing the limit, they're doing the queries on your behalf. I don't have an account with them, but most sites where you can login to them using Twitter utilize your credentials to submit the queries allowing them to do many at once.
A good way to test this is going to your profile settings, then click on either Apps or Your Twitter Data you should see their name popup there. For their paid version, they could purchase an increase in limit from Twitter but you'll end up paying for that through their pricing cost.
I am trying to move my existing iOS push notification infrastructure over to amazon SNS mobile push.
I exported all my tokens from my local db into an SNS application (using CSV). Now I want to send push notification to all my 10,000 users. I think the only way is to create a topic and subscribe all the users to that topic then publish message to that topic.
Is there any easy way to subscribe all the 10,000 users who I have imported into the system to a topic?
Thanks for any help!
It sounds like you have created the Amazon SNS Platform Application and imported your tokens as Amazon SNS Platform Endpoints.
What kind of notification are you sending?
If you send a custom message to each user, use Direct
Addressing. With this approach, you
Publish to each EndpointARN.
If you send the same message to all users, use topics. You need to subscribe your endpoints to a topic. When you are ready to send, Publish to the TopicARN. Amazon SNS will handle delivery to all endpoints subscribed to that topic. Amazon SNS currently does not provide a bulk subscribe API, so you will have to invoke Subscribe once per EndpointARN.
Full disclosure: I work for AWS on Amazon SNS.
Unfortunately there is no way so far... see Bulk push endpoints subscription to a topic on AWS Discussion Forum.
Hi there langelvicente,
Thanks for this feature request. I've passed this back through to the SNS Service Team for review.
Best regards,
Phil P
This is now possible with subscribing mobile endpoints to topics. The default subscriber limit was increased.
Q: Are there limits to the number of topics or number of subscribers
per topic?
By default, SNS offers 10 million subscriptions per topic, and 3,000
topics per account. To request a higher limit, please contact us at
at http://aws.amazon.com/support
http://aws.amazon.com/sns/faqs/?nc2=h_ls
If you have an application full of endpoints which you want to bulk subscribe to a SNS topic you can do so from the AWS SNS dashboard by:
Going to that application in SNS
Waiting until the 'total items' count at the bottom has completed its count (ie all items are listed)
Checking the select all check mark above the list of endpoints (screenshot attached)
Tap on platform action > subscribe endpoints to topic
Enter your topic ARN and click create subscription
The process will begin and it will stall your web browser but let it be as it takes time and if you want to see the subscriptions to the topic increasing you can use the AWS CLI with :
aws sns get-topic-attributes --topic-arn "[YOUR TOPIC ARN]"
note the "SubscriptionsConfirmed" value
Yes, but caveat: they each must accept your effort to enroll them into push messaging. That means that for each token in your database, each individual must consent to receiving future messages from you (via SMS and email, that is).
Each address (tel #, email) becomes an endpoint, and you can use SNS to create a topic, then subscribe each endpoint. After a confirmation email is sent to each endpoint (person on your list), they must confirm, in order to begin receiving your stream of messages via text or email.
Unfortunately, this confirmation/consent event is dicey, and must be handled correctly. Your ARN's title must be succinct (7 letter via SMS, no subject line allowed). Hence, you must contact them via SMS using a name they will recognize (the SMS message will arrive via short code, 304-something), and can be refused and/or blocked.
Not trivial! Best to investigate using push messages via mobile app. This will avoid the coveted SMS space, but you might consider putting out a blast to email and/or SMS, in order to get them using your mobile app. Apparently, given the immediacy of SMS, folks will be reading your first confirmation within 20 seconds. This could be a good thing, if they confirm, then accept your future messages.
Am doing this right now, and am preparing to be recognized by name using my initial blast -- apps that create anonymous SMS will be banned through iTunes!
I am working on small college project where i need to send sms on successful registration of a user. Can I use twilo free account to do the same?
Or I need to have the paid account only?
You can send SMS with the free trial on Twilio, but it is a limited number. You must also be able to provide an existing number to verify your account.