Twilio API

“Twilio is complicit so it rightly affects the number reputation.”

“it needs to do a better job of not being used to send spam”

“Isn't Twilio complicit? and isn't it deserved that random Twilio customers, who are funding an illegal organization, get banned?”

“Twilio is unreliable in dozens of places for non-political reasons”

“Feels like they re-write the entire user interface every year just for kicks and giggles.”

“Twilio will be helpful to assist with the port, in my experience”

“Twilio market cap is $35 billion. That's a decent amount of value.”

“The rules are now so restrictive that we are forced to stopped using Twilio for text important notification to our my own team.”

“now I can give my Claude agent instructions in any format where I have access to it”

“Twilio has put up a TON of friction on getting SMS numbers.”

“Demanding customers pay the bill and agree to not dispute any charges they can negotiate a "partial refund"”

“my card expired, they never notified me, account went into arrears, and they cancelled my number”

“The Twilio API is not really fast as far as I've used it.”

“Google is not the first i've seen doing this (AWS, Upwork, Twilio)”

“Turns out we could not connect to Twilio's API which is IPv4 only.”

“Can't say the UX is great but it certainly fixes the whole problem.”

“After what twilio did to authy and almost locked me out of my 2fa”

“probably a good idea to have the Twilio integration ready to go”

“Telnyx and Twilio nuked every small or personal accounts at some point”

“I've seen this in my career at companies like Segment, Twilio, and Orb.”

“which has other added benefits like additional protection from SIM-jacking”

“has other added benefits like additional protection from SIM-jacking and being invulnerable to theft or loss of your handset”

“sometimes they are flagged VOIP and blocked”

“You would be better off hosting your “phone number “at Twilio and then forwarding that number to a throwaway SIM card”

“Twilio’s built-in speech recog is convenient, but in my experience it can be the first thing teams outgrow”

“we ended up with Stripe, Twilio, etc. as de facto monopolies”

“Twilio suspended our account for no reason, charges anywhere from $250 - $5000/month to even access their support”

“Twilio, Bandwidth etc. are gatekept by Google and are basically just a middleman reselling Google's product.”

“it feels like they've added yet another layer of abstraction to the process”

“undercuts Twilio by like 80%”

“Sendgrid , Twilio and other saas messaging carriers need to do a better job with integrity.”

“he just calls some APIs and takes a 257% markup for phone calls”

“Twilio numbers are on a ban list for many services”

“Google verification for example would not accept my Twilio number as verification”

“I'd look into getting a dedicated Twilio number, then just forward incoming texts to your email or something like that.”

“They'd simply fix the data in their database and close the ticket.”

“You could use twillio api + script + llm + voice model.”

“they'd never delve into why that issue had happened”

“twilio and I think MailChimp really blazed the way there”

“you pay a fee (I think $500) to enable RCS with a third-party only to find out that a small percentage of devices have it enabled making it effectively useless”