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by sologoub 4643 days ago
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Small nitpick - Twilio does offer MMS, but you have to have a shortcode in US: https://www.twilio.com/mms

It's a hefty monetary commitment, so for the purposes of this story Twilio does not offer something compelling, but if you have the $$$ it's a solid service.

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The blog date was 9/14, and the groundwork was done presumably at least 2 weeks before (seeing the title of the post). Twilio announced MMS on 9/18 at TwilioCon.

According to their website, you can get MMS via regular phone #s.

Send and receive pictures over both phone numbers and short codes with Twilio Picture Messaging.

However, this service was recently launched