Using Twilio to send WhatsApp Messages

Twilio enables developers to add rich communication features to their applications via HTTP APIs that can be used with any programming language.

In this episode, Corey Weathers from Twilio returns to show us how we can use Twilio’s integration with the WhatsApp messaging platform in our .NET applications

[01:36] - Messaging on WhatsApp vs SMS
[03:04] - Exploring the Twilio Sandbox for WhatsApp
[06:10] - Messaging with the Twilio .NET SDK
[07:17] - Supporting other messaging channels
[08:48] - Responding to messages

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[AnaHelena]

Can't wait to see the video on the bot stuff! Great work!

[diegkol]

Hi getting started with Twilio to send Whatsapps seems to be a nightmare for me as a noob (coming from Delphi). Twilio beginners instructions starts good and then it seems they got bored writing it and branches off into links all over the place. Could you make an updated video for creating a basic desktop app with C# in visual studio to send a whatsapp with Twilio please. It should be made for someone clueless. Or can you maybe direct me to a video or resource? Much appreciated!

[technothirsty]

Appreciated. But what if person doesn't install whatsApp and we are trying to send data using Twillio!!!

[dougthompson]

what really a 14 character password!
Only use Chrome as MSIE or Edge wont work.
The Google password generator is no good if you are planning to use that to store your password.
Once you have logged in and selected your fav color does it tell you that you have to do the whole thing all over again. It should say in the UI that the password does not meet the new criteria not after searching your spam folder for the message to discover it did not work.

[dougthompson]

Pity that Twilio does not support WA Groups - like you chat to a team, you see the messages in a team's room .
Twilio has just migrated the SMS p2p implementation so then can bill one message to one person .
Even implementing the Broadcast p2m sending the one message out to many is still just a list of cloned SMS messages.
If your application wants to send one message to one user and the channel might be email or sms or now WA then the implementation space for the developer adding in yet another target is useful.
Twilio is all about sending that one message(at scale). It does not embrace WhatsApp as its head space is SMS and the billing line item
This is a bit sad if you want to engage with teams/communities on WA versa just shouting.

[tangikuu]

What a waste, this guy shows us sandbox not the real thing.

[wagnerortiz]

guys explained nothing!!
All this crap in already in the Twillio docs
Just made the video to get some views for the channel..
To hell!

[get_ready]

did they fire all white people there or what? i havent seen a white face on this channel for a while now