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by kolencherry 1775 days ago
You can now enable Twilio longcodes to receive SMSes from shortcodes.

https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/223181668-Can-T...

Many companies who do SMS for account verification check whether or not the number is hosted with a VoIP provider and purposefully do not send verification requests to those numbers. It's a fraud prevention tactic.

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I have heard rumors about this - very happy to see it in place.