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How much of a threat is this to Twillio? I suppose Twillio is more for building whole systems, this is just for notifications but it'll be interesting to see ho
by brackin 15y ago
How much of a threat is this to Twillio? I suppose Twillio is more for building whole systems, this is just for notifications but it'll be interesting to see how/if they react to this.
- aggarwalachal 15y agoThis does not seem like that much of threat to Twillio. It not only provides SMS but a wide variety of services. Also, there are a lot of developers already using Twillio, so it does not make sense for them to move to another service.
- darklajid 15y ago"You can now subscribe a US phone number to an SNS topic. After the subscription has been confirmed, notifications sent to the topic will be delivered to the phone as an SMS message." Note the _US_ in there. I stopped reading at that point and couldn't care less. Hi Twilio :)
- zootm 15y agoFunnily enough, until very recently this was my response to Twilio :). Actually, now I look at it, it's still my response to Twilio re: text messages. Of course I still need to figure out something to do with Twilio.
- coob 15y agoTwilio doesn't seem to support SMS outside the US, at least it doesn't in the UK.
- richardw 15y agoWell, they're not doing voice so Twilio still has that advantage. Also, support is likely to be much better with a startup than with the huge behemoth. However, Amazon has the footprint to get you worldwide delivery. Twilio just arrived in (parts of) the EU, but that's a temporary advantage. Also, there's that 0.75c charge. That's already a 0.25% saving and Amazon have a habit of reducing the price whenever possible. Twilio et al will likely focus on better service, more features, easier signup and use.