I've had a couple successes hooking Twilio up to a CouchDB instance for SMS based data collection. This might be an interesting way to start using it. Plus, if

I've had a couple successes hooking Twilio up to a CouchDB instance for SMS based data collection. This might be an interesting way to start using it. Plus, if you aren't getting too sophisticated, you can just use Couch to handle the API calls to Twilio directly.