I have a ruby on rails app that I would like to send and receive SMS from.
It looks like Twilio's service has some support https://www.twilio.com/sms/pricing/ug
However I cannot verify my Ugandan phone number.
Any ideas on how to programatically send SMS using Twilio in Uganda?
Twilio Developer Evangelist here,
If I understand correctly, your main issue is verifying your number? Contact help#twilio.com and they should be able to help you out with that.
I think all you need is in their blog post about setting up Twilio for Rails. And for the verification of your phone number, you should ask their support.
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Hey Guys I have an upgraded paid Twilio account and I'd like to send SMS without phone number verification through my Rails app.
Is there a way to do this?
Please advise
Thank you
Twilio developer evangelist here.
The phone number verification for SMS is only a restriction to trial accounts. Once you have upgraded your account you will be able to send SMS messages to any number (though we recommend you get consent for that activity from the end user, of course).
If you are finding that you can't send messages without verifying the number and you have upgraded the app, then please get in touch with Twilio support and they will figure out what is wrong with your account.
I am making an app in MVC to send/receive SMS using Twilio API. I am done with sending SMS functionality but I am confused to get(Inbound) SMS log sent to Twilio number from user.
There are few article but not enough for me. Please help me.
Twilio developer evangelist here.
I recommend this guide that was built by the Twilio documentation team on How to Receive and Reply to SMS Messages in C#. It will explain what a webhook is, how to use TwiML and how to use that knowledge together in ASP.NET MVC to receive and respond to SMS messages.
In my app user needs to verify his phone number to complete the registration process means when the user tries to register with phone number, a verification code will be send to his device. on inserting the code, the app should allow him to register , regarding this I am using twilio as SMS gateway. Does anybody has a sample code, so that I can through the code to check how this process is going to intiate.
Twilio developer evangelist here. There are a variety of blog posts that show you how to accomplish this around the Internet. For example:
A phone verification system with PHP and MySQL
Phone verification with Ruby and Rails
Phone verification using JavaScript and Parse
Or, if you want something even easier, Authy is a service that handles all the verification you need through just a few API calls.
Hope this helps.
In twilio, I want to send automated sms like “Thanks for contacting us, we will reply to you shortly” to the user when I receive an SMS from the user.
Please let me know how I can do this.
I'm a developer evangelist for Twilio.
Have you checked out the documentation on http://twilio.com? There is a good tutorial on starting with messaging in the quickstart section on sending and receiving messages with Twilio. There are instructions in PHP, Python, Ruby, Java and C# that should be able to get you going.
Let me know if this helps.
Question. We want to associate our twitter account with a Twilio number. The program has been written to accept and send SMS messages to a group of people - and it works. But we can't we can't activate the number with our Twitter account, because Twilio can't send to short codes? Is there any way to go around this? Or make it work? Thanks!
Twilio doesn't work with short codes unfortunately. See their documentation on this here.
https://www.twilio.com/help/faq/sms/can-my-twilio-number-send-sms-to-a-non-twilio-short-code