Twilio: Web Service API for Making and Receiving Phone Calls, building hosted IVR and PBX telephone applications

Description

TELEPHONY IN THE CLOUD

Twilio provides an in-cloud API for voice communications that leverages existing web development skills, resources and infrastructure.

CONNECT AND COORDINATE BY VOICE

Build sales automation systems, order inquiry lines, CRM solutions, call routing apps, phone trees, appointment reminders, custom voicemail apps, and a whole lot more.

SIMPLE, POWERFUL, PAY-AS-YOU-GO

Everything you need in just 5 API building blocks. Reduce the cost of developing, deploying and managing voice apps by paying for capacity when you need it, not before.

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Twilio demos and source code samples

Call (866) 584-0962 and Twilio says back Hello World

Call (866) 583-8121, enter your zip, and Twilio says the local weather

Enter your phone number, Twilio calls you with an automated reminder

Enter your phone number, leave a recorded message, play the audio back via the web

Why Twilio?

While there are a lot of telecom options out there, most of them seem to be built for... telecom engineers. Who knows one of those? Twilio is designed to allow WEB DEVELOPERS to build advanced, reliable voice applications using only your existing software, mad skills, databases, etc.

We Speak Your Language

If it can accept an HTTP request and output XML, you can use it to write a Twilio application. Any stack of web servers (Apache, LightHTTP, IIS, Mongrel, etc.), programming languages (PHP, Ruby, Java, Python, Cold Fusion, Perl, whatever) and hosting environments (Linux, Windows, Solaris, Google App Engine, Atari 2800...) can be used. Note, the preferred stack is Apache with Erlang running on a linux hacked Coleco that's missing one controller.

Existing Data and Business Logic

Write voice integrated apps that take advantage of your existing web site infrastructure, including databases and business logic. Instead of exposing data to browsers in

s, let callers hear the same ...

Original URL

http://www.twilio.com/

http://www.twilio.com/