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Rick
Events Services, 2 - 10 employees
Used less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
Reviewed March 2021
It gets it done
Suzi
Verified reviewer
Semiconductors, 51-200 employees
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed March 2023
Twilio is an excellent tool in relation to quality and price, I recommend it.
In generally, companies of any size may stand to gain a significant amount by putting Twilio's powerful communication capabilities into action.
PROSTwilio allows programmers to effortlessly create and release new forms of communication. Twilio provides a number of application programming interfaces (APIs), software development kits (SDKs), and libraries for adding telephony functionality to software. It also offers a variety of ways to get in touch, including phone, text, video, and electronic mail, so that each user's experience can be tailored to their own needs.
CONSUntil now, I haven't been able to find a single drawback to using Twilio. My interactions with Twilio have always been positive.
Reasons for switching to Twilio
Decided to use this program because it has many features and integrations, and customer service is excellent.
Pius
Internet, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed May 2022
Twilio
Twilio helps me send transactional SMS messages to my users, which is its important role for my business and it nails this. However, to get more out of it, I use it for marketing to certain user segments as well and it performs brilliantly. Overall, I am happy with Twilio.
PROSTwilio easily integrates with multiple 3rd party services out there. With a simple Zap in Zapier, you can build multiple workflows that trigger operations on your Twilio accounts such as sending out mass SMS or transactional SMS to customers. Twilio has exceptional deliverability in so many countries around the world. So no matter where your recipient is, Twilio can pretty much reach them.
CONSTwilio has a steep learning curve if you do intend to get the most out of the products. You can cover a lot with simple API and Zapier, but to get the most from it using "Programmable Communications" needs some level of expertise. And this is where Twilio really showcases its powers. Unfortunately without a certain level of expertise, you will not get to that. Personally, as a NoCode builder, to overcome this I had to hire an expert to help me get the most out of Twilio.
Reason for choosing Twilio
Twilio was much easier to integrate with my existing stack of Bubble, Zapier, and Airtable.
Mark
E-Learning, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
2
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
2
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
1
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed October 2023
Customer support is dificult to reach and unresponsive
We have been a SendGrid customer for about 7 months. We use the service to handle the transactional emails from our website. We have been satisfied with that service and decided to also use them for our marketing campaigns On September 30th we exported our MailChimp contacts and cleaned up the data. On October we upgraded our SendGrid plan to Basic 50k, contacted SendGrid support, informed them what we were doing and asked about the use of Tags. We then imported 47k contacts, prepared a time sensitive single send marketing piece which we released on October 2nd to our complete contact list. SendGrid shut down the campaign, disabled the links in the 13k emails that had been sent, making them useless, and suspended our account. We have been unable to reach SendGrid to resolve this. This action, and lack of it by Twillo/SendGrid has significantly impacted our business as the campaign was in support of a live continuing education course scheduled for Tuesday 10/3. At this point we are trying to salvage what we can by moving to another marketing service.
PROSWe were migrating our email marketing from MailChimp to Twillo's SendGrid. Relative to MailChimp we found SendGrid's email design tool to be more flexible and easier to use
CONSCustomer support: Two issues1 -Customer support is difficult to access. The support phone number listed on Google is disconnected, there is no chat, "Contact support" on the website requires the user to fill in a text box labeled "Tell us your issue." We've tried this multiple times only to get an error message: "There was an error retrieving results for your query. Please try again." We've managed to get multiple messages to SendGrid Support by responding to previous support ticket emails. I see some one at SendGrid has deleted all but one of these. Obviously someone knows we have an urgent issue but no response and it has been over 18 hours since our first request for support. 2. When we informed Customer support that we were migrating our marketing champagne from Mail Chimp to SendGrid they failed to inform us about the possibility of the automated account suspension we have encountered, and how to avoid it .
Reason for choosing Twilio
We were already using it for our transactional emails, fee structure and reputation for deliver-ability
Reasons for switching to Twilio
Fee structure and reputation for deliver-ability
Anonymous
11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed November 2023
Trillion is a Great Integration for Sales Professionals!
Overall I had a great experience with Twilio. As a salsa professional, it checked all of the boxes for my team and I. We could record calls with ease, received awesome call quality, and made our lives very easy.
PROSI really liked how we could call off of our work laptops and have the same quality as my cell phone. This allowed me to have the client data in front of me without worrying about my phone!
CONSI have no complaints about Twilio! It was a great service.
Ed
Marketing and Advertising, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed May 2022
Affordable 1:1 SMS messaging that natively integrates with Chili Piper and Marketo Engage
Experience has been positive and great
PROSExtremely affordable option to send 1:1 SMS meeting reminders in conjunction with Chili Piper and increase show rates to hard earned appointments set by our sales reps as well as send 1:1 SMS marketing messages via Marketo Engage
CONSDoesn't have 2-way, bi-directional texting capabilities when a prospects responds via text to either our meeting reminders or marketing messages
Reason for choosing Twilio
Pricing commitment
Reasons for switching to Twilio
Skipio is a subscription-based Texting-CRM platform with a substantial monthly commitment
Kristen
Marketing and Advertising, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed September 2022
Twilio has become a backbone for my work structure! Couldn’t live without it.
Fantastic! I have really become to rely on it. I do wish that building some of the things inside of the Twilio platform was a little simpler for me. Although they do have really great guides for everything to help me get what I want done
PROSTwilio is so dependable and versatile and I am extremely happy with it! It has become a main structure of my work flows from marketing text messages, call forwarding and everything communication. Twilio basically does everything. You can build anything you can think of inside the Twilio platform. It blows my mind what it is capable of. I feel like the only limit to what I can create with Twilio is my intelligence.
CONSI like everything about Twilio. I have been using it forever and I don’t plan to stop anytime soon
Reason for choosing Twilio
So many reasons. I actually still use zadarma but that’s only because I haven’t taken the time to port out my phone number.
Julien
Verified reviewer
Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
1
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed May 2022
Amazing powers - not for anyone
We did our transfer from Dialpad to Twilio after seeing the price difference + all the missing options (automation and integration) Dialup was missing. We faced a huge issue when we realized we had to code our own phone system to be able to receive or send sms and calls. Happened at a moment where the firm didn't have the time to read the 3000 pages tutorial offered on Twilio. Our transfer made our whole phone system out of service for 3 weeks. We finally found other companies offering what Twilio should offer : a basic interface to the basic needs of a phone number (call + sms). This workaround finally made the deal much less advantageous than expected. We now pay almost the same price as we were paying with Dialpad, for a less powerful interface.. until we have the time to focus on building our own app to use it.
PROSTwilio can do absolutely everything you need to do with a phone number. Automate, Record, SMS, Call, Chatbot, Integrations, Number verification.
CONSVery complex to setup. You absolutely NEED to know how to code. No easy user software available to simply use your number from day 1.
Reason for choosing Twilio
For all the added functionalities offered on Twilio (automation + integrations) and the much lower cost.
Reasons for switching to Twilio
For all the added functionalities offered on Twilio (automation + integrations) and the much lower cost.
Brian
Computer Software, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed January 2022
Twilio SMS and Studio are fantastic
The API was easy to use, well documented, and accurate (to the documentation provided). I was up and running with a programmatic call to Twilio to send text messages from my application within 15 minutes. Twilio Studio and flows provide a great user experience that puts a lot of power into a non-developers hands for managing communication and escalation. Example flows give you just about everything you would need to get started building your own flow.
CONSCertain aspects, like accounts, sub-accounts, and management can only be done using the API. These are minor and usually one and done (so they could be done with tool like Postman or SOAPUI).
Reason for choosing Twilio
Studio and Flows of Twilio, prior experience using Twilio for phone number verification.
Richard
Hospitality, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed March 2023
Utilisation of Live Agent
I think the process is good. I do feel that emergency situations could be better managed on occasions
PROSI think the smooth integration with our Live Agent process was great ... easy and quick
CONSSome initial issues with number spamming .
Reason for choosing Twilio
Live Agent recommendation
Reasons for switching to Twilio
We were having huge issues with call quality
Muhammad Aamer
Verified reviewer
Real Estate, 1 employee
Used monthly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed December 2023
Twilio is the best programmable communication tool.
My overall experience is great with twilio i have been using it for more than year and will continue to use it. The pricing is good comparatively and also it's API is fast and relaible i have integrated twilio in my websites and i am very happy with it.
PROSI love Twilio because it comes with a very nice pricing system and then the api is my favorit. You can use it for sending messages and calls that you have pre programmed and is very very very helpful to solve your costumer's problem and keep the engagements and the top level.
CONSOne Thing i do not like about twilio that you can not customize your sender name for some countries like USA. so the sms sent is from twilio's own username i do not know why is twilio not allowing to use a custom sender name in all countries but yes this is the only thing i do not appreciate
Cameron
Information Technology and Services, 10,000+ employees
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed December 2022
Good for business, not so much for residential use
Twilio was good, but I ended up moving to Voip.ms because of the better residential support Voip.ms has.
PROSIntuitive web user interfaceAmazing and responsive customer support
CONSTailored towards businessesOnly supports the ULAW codec, whereas other VoIP providers are moving towards G.722
Reason for choosing Twilio
I used Twilio in conjunction with Voip.ms, until recently I ported everything over to Voip.ms. Twilio was really cheap, had an intuitive interface, amazing customer support, and seemed to be really reliable.
Reasons for switching to Twilio
Telnyx and Twilio were very similar, I went with Twilio because it seemed to be more of an established brand.
Alok
Computer Software, 201-500 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed August 2022
Twilio user review
Sending bulk communication to our users via SMS or WhatsApp , Twilio provides the good platform.
PROSfollowing reasons to use Twilio- 1. Good UI and easy to understand 2. Pricing wrt to a competitor 3. Sticky sender feature. 4. Programmable Messaging service 5. Logging and debug feature 6. Webhook configuration
CONS1. SMS success rate and charges are better wrt to competitors. 2. Sender numbers tier is not in users' control 3. Sticky sender feature needs more clarity on usage
Reason for choosing Twilio
Good success rate and pricing for WA communication Better support from the Twilio team.
Efezino
Verified reviewer
Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed December 2022
Dependable
Overall, however, Twilio is a solid choice for businesses and organizations looking for a comprehensive communications platform. From a developer's perspective, it is one of the simplest solutions to integrate with.
PROSTwilio is a powerful and effective communications platform that allows businesses and organizations to easily integrate voice, video, messaging, and other forms of communication into their systems and applications. Some of the key benefits of using Twilio include:Flexibility: Twilio provides a range of different APIs and tools that can be easily integrated into a variety of different platforms and applications. This allows organizations to use Twilio in a way that best fits their needs and requirements.Scalability: Twilio is designed to handle high volumes of traffic, making it a good choice for organizations that need to send or receive large numbers of communications on a regular basis. The service can easily be scaled up or down to meet changing needs.Features: Twilio offers a range of advanced features, including tracking and analytics, voice recognition, and integration with other tools and services. These features can help organizations optimize their communications and improve their overall effectiveness.
CONSDespite its many benefits, there are some potential drawbacks to consider when using Twilio. For example, the cost of the service can be a barrier for some organizations, and the advanced features may not be necessary for all users. Additionally, the service may require some technical expertise to set up and use effectively.
Reasons for switching to Twilio
I was being charged for messages that were not delivered while using other platforms. The deliverability rate of messages sent using other platforms was low. Ever since we made the switch to Twilio, we have a 100% deliverability rate.
Anonymous
1 employee
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2023
Unlock the full potential of your communication and messaging with Twilio
Twilio is a powerful and flexible communication and messaging platform that offers a wide range of features and services, including SMS, MMS, voice messaging, video and voice calling, and its ease of integration with other tools and platforms. allows me to easily add messaging, calling, and other features to their web and mobile applications.
PROSthe ease of use, the cost-effectiveness, and the support resources, and it offers a wide range of pre-built connectors, SDKs, and libraries that make it easy to integrate with popular languages and frameworks such as Java, Python, Ruby, and JavaScript. Additionally, Twilio's API makes it easy to integrate its services into your web or mobile applications.
CONSTwilio is a powerful platform for communication and messaging but it can be challenging for those without technical expertise to fully utilize its capabilities, it may require hiring an expert to fully unlock the platform's features. Despite this, those who master it will find it is a powerful and versatile solution.
Tanya
Verified reviewer
Computer Software, 11-50 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
3
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
1
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed October 2023
Poor customer service in Twilio
Being one of the major players in the market, Twilio has abused its position greatly! We and our customers consequentially, have experienced major service suspension in our US region. TBy not taking serious operational issues for their customer as a matter of priority they have caused us not only loss of revenue but impacted our reputation vastly. The interruption to services in the US area has been left unresolved for over 2 weeks, being transferred from department to department and mostly handled by AI very unsuccessfully and time consuming.Since it has been a reoccurring issue, and has been solved previously, it shows us that their client data and history management is very poor. Being a global service provider based in the US, they do not take into account the time zone differences and the customer support response time is appalling. The response time window doesn’t consider the time difference when the automation kicks in.
PROSThe software is easy to use and deploy, fair pricing
CONSLevel of customer service - our issue with the US carrier is being handled for more than 2 weeks with no success. And Twilio is based in the US.Use of AI in Customer support - no result, tons of disappointment.Kicking the ticket from one department to another knowing the importance of the matter for us and our customers.
Leifur
Computer Software, 1 employee
Used weekly for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
1
EASE OF USE
1
VALUE FOR MONEY
1
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed September 2023
Could be really great, and it sounds great, but its really not
Twilio is a disaster of a product, and I would never ever use it again, it randomly stopped working and I got a Forbidden error that really had no documentation to explain why it was happening. When I contacted customer support they told me that it was because Twilio no longer offered email verification for free users. Well, they could have at least sent an email out telling everyone that. I would be forced to buy their tiered plan, switch services, or set up my own verification which sucks but at least tell your users that you're making these changes right?
PROSIt had a high number of emails you could send for free every day
CONSThey had a sprawling system that required like four api keys just to set up and integration between multiple products with little to no to innacurate documentation. First you have to have a SendGrid account and set up an API Key (first key in .env) , then you have to make an email template which is very hard to do because they have a lot of bugs with that whole system and its rather confusing as well, especially in regards to trying to actually write your own code for how it looks . Then you go to Twilio and get your Auth Token (second .env) and create a Service that has its own token (third .env) , then you integrate that with your sendGrid Template and I forgot where exatly but there some fourth token you need. It's ridiculously complicated and poorly set up, and the documentation doesn't really tell you how to code it, the page that tells you how to send emails has code examples for sending text messages so that's unhelpful. It took me several hours to figure out how it all works and get it set up for automatic emailing. When I switched to Courier it took my literally 15 minutes to do the exact same thing. They had great documentation, a wonderful easy to use website, and just one API key. Don't use Twilio, it's trash, try Courier.
Reason for choosing Twilio
I know Twilio uses SendGrid for their email automation but I really like their email verification service so I used Twilio rather than straight up SendGrid. SendGrid I have no problem with, they are decent enough
Regina
Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed August 2021
Powerful Call Management
I have had a great overall experience with Twilio. Call quality is great, the users have the option to switch between bridge dial (using a physical phone linked to Twilio) or voice over IP calling. Implementation is relatively easy and call management is done in the cloud so it can be done from anywhere.
PROSWe use Twilio in conjunction with Groove (Twilio is Groove's voice provider). It is an awesomely powerful software for call center-like call management. The voice provider lives in the cloud so Twilio is very easy to implement and get up and running very quickly with minimal development. It is pretty intuitive but has a learning curve for less tech-savvy users. The help articles are well-documented.
CONSTwilio is very powerful, but could use more features, like the ability to have conference calls and drop off the conference call without transferring the call somewhere else. The ability to call someone, then conference in another line on the current call is not available on the platform which could be a deal-breaker for call center use.
Reasons for switching to Twilio
Twilio offered a more comprehensive call center package that fit our needs better than the dialer provided by InsideSales.com.
Brent
Computer Software, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
3
EASE OF USE
1
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed January 2024
Terrible A2P Campaign Interface
I work with nearly 100 clients and I help them setup their Twilio accounts (we are a reseller). The process to get a verified campaign, brand, and messaging service is dismal despite even after 8 months of working with their new system. I do not understand how a company as large and as tech focused as twilio does not have better systems. Their asynchronous tasks rarely completely in the browser, the web interfaces glitches and flickers randomly, and the error messages are minimal and require getting in touch with their cookie cutter customer support team (zendesk). They also make you build your own menu, and the menu is always changing for some reason. I am writing this review out of frustration. I hope they get their act together. I am seriously considering taking my business elsewhere.
PROSI like that there are so many tools available to developers
CONSTheir interface, UI, UX, and implementation of the new A2P Campaign Registration
Anonymous
2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
1
EASE OF USE
1
VALUE FOR MONEY
2
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
1
FUNCTIONALITY
1
Reviewed August 2023
Twilio has real bad customer service!
I usually don't leave reviews but I am so upset of how Twilio treated me and my business that I feel an obligation to do so. Twilio has very bad customer service. If your app, website or product depends on its service like API or SMS, I would look somewhere else like Plivo or other service providers. Twilio suspended my account for weeks on an error through their system and through numerous emails, they took their time to unsuspend it while my business was being damaged every day by it. I would never recommended Twilio to any businesses or consumers.
PROSThere is nothing much to like about Twilio.
CONSTwilio has real bad customer service and not reliable platform for businesses that depend on API and SMS for their businesses.
Reasons for switching to Twilio
Twilio has real bad customer service and does not care about its customer's business even though it suspended the customer's account based on an error.
Jeff
Verified reviewer
Leisure, Travel & Tourism, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed December 2018
Great for Triggered Text Message Notifications
Overall, very happy. Great value for the money. Would highly recommend.
PROSWe've been using this system to send text notifications to a distribution list when someone visits our website and completes a form to request information. We typically receive emails from clients who send 3-5 similar, if not identical emails to multiple tour operators. By dramatically decreasing our time to contact the potential client and answer questions via email or over the phone, we saw a marked increase in booking conversions. Using the Zapier integration between our Website form tool "Gravity Forms" and Twilio, we now can respond to online inquiries a matter of minutes, and secure a booking before our competitors can even open their email.
CONSIn the Zapier setup, it is a bit of hit and miss to get all the custom text to layout like you want in a single text message.
Anish
Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed February 2023
Twilio - Best Virtual Number Providers
Twilio is overall the best and most reliable software to get Virtual numbers
PROSTwilio helps to get virtual numbers within minutes especially United States numbers which helps us with our business needs.
CONSRestrictions and extra process involving more days for some country numbers like India, and Hong Kong affects our timeline
Anonymous
11-50 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed August 2018
Always on the Go with Twilio!
Competitive rates in the market is being offered. We use this in the company as the main tool for SMS messaging platform tool for our devices so it's cheaper compared to the rates we would be paying if we are to use the services offered by regular major carriers. It also allows use via API so very convenient and easy to set up in the backend for operational use with different platforms.
CONSLately, there's an issue when viewing/searching for SMS transaction logs. When you search for the logs using phone number as a search tool, sometimes the results will not show up. I think it's a bug. Also when the sub menus were changed from the previous version, it got confusing. Navigating the menus on the site got more complicated compared to before.
Ariel
Verified reviewer
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed July 2018
Easy to integrate with any platform
I was able to create a driver with LUA, and integrate SMS feature to Control4 Home Smart System. I wanted to receive messages every time certain events occurred, and Twilio is really accurate and helpful. I had to minimize the amount of messages so I could spend less money per month.
PROS- It has an API Rest and a 5 minutes to implement rule, which is quite true. - They have a quick start for many platforms / languages. - SMS Feature was exactly what I needed, fast send/receive messages. - Besides having excellent docs, they have something called TwilioQuest, which I found really funny and entertaining.
CONS- Price per SMS seems to be high, at least in my country. I guess it depends on what are you building, and the value you give to this feature.
Steven
Verified reviewer
Computer Networking, 1 employee
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
1
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
1
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed November 2018
Powerful yet complex
I was able to create a call center script using this service and it worked great. Customer support sucks. If I were to rate Customer Support: 2 stars. Documentation: 5
PROSYou can create almost anything with their voice prompts. Both inbound and outbound calls. From IVR to automated calls. You can host your scripts on their platform or your own server using the REST API.
CONSDocumentation is all over the place. There are two main ways to send commands. Twiml or API (your language like PHP or C#) but the documentation jumps back and forth. One step of a tutorial is in Twiml. Then the next thing you want to do is not. It uses the API. And trying to find the same documentation in the other language is hit or miss.