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Building Beyond Google Voice With Twilio: Working Hours, Whitelists and Blacklists

www.twilio.com on 03/11/2013

Excerpt: I have a confession. The number on my business cards is not a Twilio number–it’s for Google voice. I’ve used Google Voice for forwarding and voicemail and it’s served me well. I wanted to add more awesome features like whitelisting, black listing, transcribing voice mail, and managing lists via SMS. I’ll show you how I used Twilio to get fine grained control over who calls me when. At any time, I’m interacting with customers, event organizers, and partners who need to reach me outside business hours. But, there are a bunch of people who may not need to reach me at 11pm on a Wednesday. When setting these features up, three concepts stood out: working hours, whitelists, and blacklists.... read the full post.
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