Sending your first message with Twilio

Follow along and send your first message using the Twilio API. We’ll explore docs and best practices, and get you building as quickly as possible. We can’t wait to see what you build!
Teacher's notes: twil.io/sending-your-first-me...

[@WhirlysWorldVideo]

Heads up for anyone who just wants to try this out using a "trial" account in the US. Sending SMS with a "local" 10-digit twilio number requires setting up an A2P 10DLC "campaign" which you **can't** do without upgrading from the trial account. Sending via toll-free (not local) phone number instead, requires registering an existing business with details like an EIN. There is no longer an option to just set up a trial account, pick a number, verify a few recipient phone numbers, and send SMS messages. The API call might succeed, but the message won't actually be sent until you jump through all those other regulatory hoops.

[@TwilioDevs]

Hi, yes! Regulatory compliance is important. We have a video on the channel about it here: th-cam.com/video/KWvbRToRnGg/w-d-xo.html

[@atzi3812]

Yes, its a headache, it has truly been everything but smooth. The platform itself needs to be cleaned up and obtaining support has been impossible.

[@jpg832]

Thank you. Received SID and Status queued in the terminal, but no text to the phone, this explains it.

[@allemails6617]

It's super confusing to a newbie. I spent soo much time trying to figure out what to do.
I reached out to support who gave me a 'ready made, don't bother reading the question answer' - that didn't help.
The above message at least helps and tells me NOT to try and get an account. 👍

[@PhillipGibb-xd3sx]

nice, it would be great to get some guidance on bulk sending SMSs since notify is going to be deprecated

[@Mike.Kachar]

Great starter video - quite informative!

[@TwilioDevs]

Thanks for watching!

[@user-du3yx6pg2e]

thank you so much

[@alahemy]

I still didn’t get any message on my phone, even I followed all your steps 😢

[@AhmedIbrahim555]

very complicated, I have a upgraded account and i can't to use iot as a virtual number to receive sms

[@TwilioDevs]

Hello Ahmed,
Thank you for reaching out. I'm sorry to hear about the trouble you're experiencing with using IoT as a virtual number to receive SMS messages. To better assist you, could you please provide more details about the issue? Specifically, let us know any error messages you're seeing and the steps you've already tried.

[@ErikKinsley-f5q]

Can we say "not for those that don't code"?

[@TwilioDevs]

We have just the thing for that too: www.twilio.com/docs/studio/user-guide

[@andrewejenakevwe8729]

Please how do I send out mms. Everything I keep seeing is on SMS

[@TwilioDevs]

Hi! To send an MMS you need to pass in a MediaURL parameter to the POST request that contains a URL to the picture you want to send.

[@TwilioDevs]

More details in the docs: www.twilio.com/docs/messaging/api/message-resource#create-a-message-resource

[@cristianbenavides227]

I'm trying to send a message from an account of facebook messenger and the error code is 63001 and the status is failed. How can I fix it?

[@TwilioDevs]

Hey there.
Thank you for bringing this to our attention and I do apologize for the issues you're running into with connecting your Facebook account.
This link here outlines what could be going on.
www.twilio.com/docs/api/errors/63001
If this link, alone, does not resolve the issue, I'd suggest opening an internal request within your account so we can further review.

[@cristianbenavides227]

​@@TwilioDevs Thank you, I solved it deleting the facebook account connection in twilio and making it again.

[@lazyplayer1]

Ahoy World