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by josh2600 4289 days ago
This is an amazing biz dev achievement. Twilio seems to be getting closer to aggregating all of the hard stuff in telco land every day.

It's hard to overstate just how hard this is to do. This isn't as simple as going to an aggregator and getting SMS done, MMS has been one of the last bastions of exerted carrier influence and it's slowly being democratized. This is the first time I can recall someone getting this level of access to MMS services within operators (please correct me if I'm wrong).
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RobSpectre 4289 days ago
Much obliged Josh. Took a while, but we're having a lot of fun with it.

Text a pic of yourself to (646) 846-8238 - you should get a sweet mustache back.

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megrimlock 4289 days ago
Old unit testing habits compelled me to txt a photo that already has a mustache. Result? Better mustache. Test passed.
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x13 4288 days ago
too cool. thanks.
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iconicaapl 4288 days ago
It seems like it would be the first time someone has done it properly. What is so beautiful about Twilio is their attention to detail for developers - amazing documentation, samples, etc so I am assuming their MMS implementation will be as clean. Here's hoping.

mBlox, OpenMarket, Mobile365 all tried to implement the half assed MMS implementation forced on them by the carrier market and it was an absolutely nightmare. I'm surprised noone in the tech press ever did a deep dive expose on just how archaic the whole certification process was, and the user experience was terrible.

Summary: this is not the first time the carriers have opened up MMS. Hopefully it will be the first time developers can leverage MMS the way it was intended.

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RobSpectre 4288 days ago
Kind of you to say - we work pretty hard on it. If you want a quick intro to the interface, we've but up examples in six languages for you to take a look at:

https://www.twilio.com/blog/2014/09/getting-started-with-twi...

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yid 4289 days ago
> This is the first time I can recall someone getting this level of access to MMS services within operators (please correct me if I'm wrong).

Would Mogreet qualify? I've used their MMS support for a side project more than a year ago, and found that it works well across carriers in the US.

https://developer.mogreet.com/

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justsomedood 4289 days ago
Mogreet only does short codes for MMS, though. I've been looking for a service that has MMS support for long codes/full phone numbers for a while so seeing this news today was pretty exciting for me!
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